The Texas Corn Producers Board said they have been notified by the Farm Service Agency (FSA)—on the advice of the State FSA Committee—that changes have been made to the yields for corn in certain counties under the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) program.
The following counties may have been impacted by a decrease in corn yields or split irrigated and dryland corn acres under this program: Borden, Cottle, Dickens, Foard, Garza, Hall, Hardeman, Kent, Motley, Runnels, Uvalde, Wichita, Wilbarger and Wilson.
According to a postcard mailed to farmers in these areas, they have the opportunity to revise their base reallocations, yield updates and/or program elections until May 29, 2015.
If a producer does not contact their FSA office prior to the May 29 deadline, their original program selection will remain in effect. However, farmers in this instance should understand the yields used in the program may be different than when they originally signed up.
Additionally, FSA may have made changes to other crops in these and other Texas counties. Click here to access the FSA website for the ARC/PLC program.