Monday, March 22, 2010

Prevented Planting

Some of you may have noticed some changes in prevented planting policy within RMA. What is the change and why?

Basically, RMA is working to eliminate payments that occur within normal weather patterns. In other words, ground too wet to plant in a year with average precipitation should not be eligible.

Is this a big concern for us? Not at all. However, over $400,000,000.00 was paid to acres now determined ineligible in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota.