By: Chris Bruynis, OSU Extension Educator, Ross County
Farmers with the administration of their farms consolidated at one FSA office may want to examine their ARC-CO projected payments for 2016 – 2018. If no decision to change is made, ARC-CO payments will be calculated on the average yields for the administrative FSA office county, regardless of where the land is physically located. Earlier in the year, FSA announced that farmers could elect to have the 2014 and/or the 2015 ARC-CO payments calculated on the county in which the land is physically located. For some farms this was financially beneficial. However, do not expect 2016 to be like previous years since the high yields that reduced payments in a few locations (Defiance County 2014, and Ross County 2015) are now included in the formula to determine the payment. To read the full article go to Farm Program Payments Revisited July 2016