U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Teresa Lasseter announced on January 5 the appointment of Susan Dykes Holmes to serve as FSA State Executive Director for Georgia.
"Susan Holmes is a seventh generation Jasper County cotton and dairy farmer with a love for Georgia agriculture and rural America," said Lasseter. "She has been a community leader since her early days as school teacher and postmaster. We are excited to have her step into the role as state executive director," Lasseter said.
March 31 - 2006 final loan & LDP availability date for barley, wheat, honey, oats, rapeseed, canola, flaxseed, sesame seed, and crambe
May 1 - Deadline to report cotton "intended" acres for BWEP without late charge
May 31 - Deadline to report tobacco acreage 2006 final loan & LDP availability date for corn, cotton, soybeans, sunflower seed, grain sorghum, mustard seed, safflower seed, small chickpeas, dry peas
July 1 - Final date to report all Small Grain and Tobacco crop acreage
July 15 - Deadline to report Spring/Summer seeded crops for Spring/Summer seeded crops for FSA purposes Deadline to pay for cotton acres for BWEP
August 1 - Deadline to request Farm Reconstitutions (farm combinations and farm divisions) to be effective for the current fiscal year for farms subject to DCP
August 3 - Deadline for submitting 2007 Direct and Counter-cyclical program (DCP) Contract, with no late-fee
August 15 - Deadline to apply for 2008 NAP (Value Loss Crops, Grass Crops for forage, grazing or seed, Grapes, Cranberries)
September 28 - Direct and Counter-cyclical program (DCP) contract with $100 late fee September 30 - 2002 Farm Bill Expires
November 1 - Deadline to request a contract "transfer" or "lump-sum buy-out" of Tobacco Transition Payment Program (TTPP) contracts
December 1 - Deadline to apply for NAP (Honey)
December 31 - Deadline for Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) practice CP36 signup
January 31 - Deadline to apply for NAP (annually planted crops, spring and fall, warm season grasses for grazing) 2008 final loan & LDP availability date for Mohair, Peanuts, Unshorn Pelts, and Wool
355 East Hancock Avenue, STOP 100 Athens, Georgia 30601-2775 Phone: 706-546-2266 Fax: 706-546-2151
Harry L. Kemp, DVM; Chairperson, 229-336-7700 Charles W. Lee, III, Member 912-823-3621 Ronald Calvin Lee, Member 229-995-5100 Mary Alice McGee, Member 229-686-3681 William A. Bagwell, Jr., Member 770-531-6623
The Georgia Farm Service Agency State Committee oversees the activities of the agency. The members are appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. They hear appeals from local farmers and guide the direction of agency policy.
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