Filing an acreage report on all cropland on a farm is a requirement to participate in the 2022 farm programs for eligible row crop commodities referred to as ARC/PLC.
Also, it is a requirement to receive any 2022 commodity loans or LDPs, of anyone with acreage in the CRP program, Livestock Feed Program, or any non-insurable crop acreage coverage (NAP) for specialty crops.
FSA encourages everyone, whether participating in a program or not, to timely report all crop acreage on each farm. By timely reporting your crop acreage, this information is readily available if needed to establish eligibility for federal farm programs.
The final date to file a late-filed acreage report is one year after the final acreage reporting deadline for the prior year. Basically, July 15, 2022, is the final date to file a late filed acreage report for the 2021 crop.
Those producers that have not file an acreage report for 2021 and were participating in the 2021 ARC/PLC program have been notified by all available resources. If there are any 2021 safety net payments from ARC/PLC programs, you will not receive them.
This is the final notification. After July 15, 2022, there is nothing FSA can do.
If a producer files a late-filed acreage report on last year’s (2021) crop without evidence of the crop still present in the field, then supplemental info from crop insurance of an acreage report is required for FSA county committee consideration.
If a producer received an Emergency Relief Program application in the mail due to having suffered a 2020 or 2021 crop insurance loss that resulted from a crop insurance claim for one or both years with federal crop insurance’s Risk Management Agency, then that producer must complete the application and bring it back to the Tallahatchie FSA office before any disaster benefits can be received.
If a producer has not received an application in the mail but believes that they should have received one, then the Tallahatchie FSA office can reprint the application for anyone in this category. FSA received a list of all applications mailed out and has the application on file to print for any producer in this category.
