(Spirit Lake)—Area farmers who were unable to plant a certain crop due to this spring’s inclement weather are being reminded of an important deadline. Larry Lago of the Dickinson County Farm Services Agency tells KUOO news July 15th is the deadline for producers to report any prevented planting acreage…(click here for comment.) “Particularly any producers who are listening to this that had prevented planting acres which means they had intended to plant one crop were prevented from doing so by the final planting date, they should be reporting that to their agent as well as FSA too. And that deadline is a hard and fast one. That prevented planted claim or that prevented planted report needs to be filed by July 15th. So again that’s a pretty important deadline for all the producers that have completed planting and have made their decisions as to what their intentions are for the crops they have.”
Lago says the amount of prevented planting acres tends to vary quite a bit across the area…(click here for comment.) “A lot of things come into consideration with regard to prevented planting. It’s the quality of drainage or the extent of drainage, on a farm. Likewise, the area of the moisture that has continued to fall. It seems like as you go further east and south in the northwest Iowa area you’re finding more and more fields that never have been able to get in to get planted as of still. In Dickinson county I think we’re quite fortunate countywide. Producers were able to get in and timely plant. But the further east you go we know in eastern parts of Emmet county we definitely have some struggles there with regard to getting crops planted.”
Producers needing more information about filing a prevented planting report should contact their local Farm Service Agency. Again the deadline for filing such a report is July 15th. Lago says that is a steadfast deadline and that there will be no extensions.
