{"id":1311,"date":"2018-09-05T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2018-09-05T23:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:57:01","slug":"uga-and-fsa-producer-meetings-september-11-at-900-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/2018\/09\/uga-and-fsa-producer-meetings-september-11-at-900-am\/","title":{"rendered":"UGA and FSA Producer Meetings &#8211; September 11 at 9:00 am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UGA Ag Econ (Dr. Adam N. Rabinowitz and Dr. Yangxuan Liu) will be holding joint producer meetings with Farm Service Agency (FSA) focused on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generic Base Conversion: The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 authorizes seed cotton as a covered commodity for the 2018 crop year.\u00a0 Owners of a farm with generic base acres need to reallocate those acres.\u00a0 This section of the meeting will cover:\n<ul>\n<li>An explanation of the program, options, and the process.<\/li>\n<li>An introduction to decision aids and important issues to consider when choosing conversion of generic base acres and ARC\/PLC programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program (WHIP): The 2017 Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program is providing disaster payments to agricultural producers to offset losses from hurricanes and wildfires during 2017.\u00a0 This section of the meeting will cover:\n<ul>\n<li>An explanation of the program and how to participate.<\/li>\n<li>An overview of risk management strategies and alternative coverages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Trade related assistance for agricultural producers: The USDA is taking several actions to assist farmers in response to recent retaliatory tariffs.\u00a0 This section of the meeting will cover the following:\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s happening with U.S. trade of agricultural products?<\/li>\n<li>Market Facilitation Program.\u00a0 Who will be receiving payments and explanation of the process.<\/li>\n<li>Food Purchase and Distribution Program and Trade Promotion Program.\u00a0 Overview of assistance programs to purchase unexpected surplus and develop new export markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The regional meeting being held in our area is listed below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><strong>Tuesday, September 11, 2018<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">Statesboro: 9:00-10:30am<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">Bulloch County Extension Office, 151 Langston Chapel Road, Statesboro, GA 30458<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UGA Ag Econ (Dr. Adam N. Rabinowitz and Dr. Yangxuan Liu) will be holding joint producer meetings with Farm Service Agency (FSA) focused on the following topics: Generic Base Conversion: The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 authorizes seed cotton as a covered commodity for the 2018 crop year.\u00a0 Owners of a farm with generic base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton","category-economics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}