Filing an acreage report on all cropland on a farm is a requirement to participate in the 2023 farm programs for eligible row crop commodities referred to as ARC/PLC. Also, it is a requirement to receive any 2023 commodity loans or LDPs, or anyone with acreage in the CRP program, Livestock Feed Program or any non-insurable crop acreage coverage (NAP) for specialty crops.
It is the basic requirement to get any assistance from USDA.
The planted acreage of all row crops should also be reported to all private crop insurance agents by July 15, 2023, to receive coverage for 2023 spring crops. Producers report crops field by field using aerial photocopies to Farm Service Agency (FSA) initially and then use a copy of the FSA 578 Report of Acreage received from FSA to file their acreage reports with crop insurance. Therefore, it is very important.
To file a crop acreage report with FSA, you will need to provide the crop, intended use of the crop, number of acres of the crop, planting dates, producers who share in the crop and irrigation practices.
It does not take that long this time of year to report your acreage. The deadline to file an acreage report is July 15, 2023. But the last three weeks of acreage reporting get very busy and lines at FSA can develop near the end.
If you will work with us, we can minimize your time away from your farming operation or job or both.
We can mark aerial photocopies with all the information required and allow a producer to come back and sign the acreage reports after we have had time to load them and print them. We need producers to come in and file acreage reports when they finish planting, which helps us spread out our workload as we attempt to take field by field acreage reports on over 1,100 farms in Tallahatchie County each year.
Lastly, please report all farm ownership changes to FSA. FSA does not get notified when land changes ownership in the county records. The only way we know who you are and where you own farmland is for the producer or landowner to tell us.
Copies of deeds are required as proof of ownership and to verify all owners that should be listed on the farmland. FSA assigns a farm number to all tracts of farmland in the county based on ownership and farming operations.
This info is needed to request any federal benefits from the FSA or Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) or private crop insurance companies. New owners and operators must be added to farms before 2023 acreage reporting and can occur.
