By Steve Byrns
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will conduct a farm bill producer education and decision aid program from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Center, 1618 Airport Dr., Fort Stockton.
“This program’s goal is to help producers through the new farm bill’s decision-making process,” said David Disselhorst, AgriLife Extension agent in Pecos County.
“This farm bill sign-up has some intricacies that require producers to process quite a bit of data in order to make rational decisions,” Disselhorst said. “This training is meant to help them through the process in the least confusing way.
“Bill Thompson, AgriLife Extension economist at San Angelo, will be our key speaker. He has been involved with similar meetings across the state and is spot-on with his instruction. Cullene Heritage from our local Farm Service Agency office will also be in attendance to answer questions.”
Thompson said the statewide meetings are structured to recap both the programs available to producers, including Price Loss Coverage, or PLC, and Agricultural Risk Coverage, or ARC. They also examine any base and yield update options available to illustrate the data needed to complete the decision-making process.
The new farm bill addressing cotton won’t be in place until 2015, but most farms need to enroll acreage into one of these two coverage areas, Disselhorst said.
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