Category Archives: News

Many people are familiar the Farm Service Agency’s farm and loan programs, but what many don’t know is that FSA’s Commodity Operations division has an impact on many Americans and around the world. According to James Monahan, deputy administrator for … Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: Since most of our Fence Post readers are government employees, we include occasional articles specifically for them.  We know, of course, that other readers are interested in issues that influence things in government.  Here is one issue directed at employees … Continue reading →

New rules have been developed by the Farm Service Agency to address sanitary and safety issues of handling food bought for foreign aid. The new rules are “a response so we can protect the integrity of the program and the … Continue reading →

Range and pastureland is seeing a much needed improvement. According to USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey, 54 percent of range and pastureland across the United States is in good to excellent condition compared to 48 percent this time last year. Only … Continue reading →

USDA officials visited with the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribal (CSKT) Council as part of a government-to-government meeting held on the Flathead Indian Reservation. by Jennifer Perez Cole, public affairs/outreach specialist, Montana Farm Service Agency Montana’s USDA agency directors met … Continue reading →

Producers affected by last year’s flooding of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers are receiving help from the Farm Service Agency to repair thousands of acres of land that was destroyed. Through the FSA Emergency Conservation Program, farmers are able to … Continue reading →

The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation, which helps stabilize, support and protect farm income and prices, released interest rates for May 2012. The borrowing rate-based charge is 0.125, which is unchanged from April 2012, while the 1996 and subsequent crop year … Continue reading →

A bill that would require federal employees to contribute 5 percent of their salary toward their pensions has advanced another step forward. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 19 to 15 in favor of the bill that would … Continue reading →

One of the policy issues in debate as Congress wrestles with a new Farm Bill is what to do with the various energy sections. The 2008 Farm Bill produced an incentive program that the Farm Service Agency (FSA) administered.  It … Continue reading →

The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation and the state of Arkansas entered into a revised agreement to add incentives to the Illinois River Watershed Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). The program was created to reduce nutrient, bacterial and sediment load in … Continue reading →