Nomination forms for the Tallahatchie County FSA committee can currently be obtained from FSA county offices.
Completed nomination forms are due back to the FSA office by Aug. 1.
This year’s election is for Local Administrative Area 1, which is the hill area of Tallahatchie County west of Highway 35. Derek Beardain currently serves as the committee member from this area. Any interested producer, landowner or FSA participant who is a voter in LAA 3 is eligible to serve if they meet all eligibility requirements, the most important of which is to reside in the county.
FSA county committees make decisions on things like commodity price support loans and payments; establishment of bases, yields and commodity loans; conservation programs; livestock assistance; and ad hoc disaster payments when authorized by legislation.
FSA continues to encourage producers to report all other crops planted as soon as planting is complete. The acreage reporting period deadline is July 15, and the best way to avoid long waits at the office is to have producers report as soon as planting is complete. Some producers are still planting and will have to wait to report. Other have winter wheat to harvest before they can finish planting. However, many producers have finished planting and could report now to help spread the time spent at the FSA office and avoid delays of getting copies of their acreage reports to their private crop insurance agents by their July 15 deadline.
All a producer needs to report is the crop and planting dates for each field. We can mark the aerial photocopies, or a producer can drop off his maps with the info on them, FSA will enter and print the reports and the producer can come back to sign and pick up the reports later.
When the producer’s acreage reports are spread out across the roughly six-week period that most of the reports are filed each year, FSA can reduce the amount of time a producer has to spend in the office. If everyone waits until the last two weeks, then FSA does not have time to allow producers to drop off maps and come back later to review, sign and pick up copies
