If you are a field crop farmer and have an hour of time this morning (10-11) you may benefit from hearing from Roger Betz and Dennis Stein (MSUE) about delayed and prevented planting, instigated by our excessive rain fall during planting times this spring. If you cannot attend but are interested this presentation will be archived (available for viewing online after the fact). This link will be posted in this afternoons Michigan Organic Listserv (6-3/2011). To watch the program and have the chance to ask questions you will need to be online and go to http://breeze.msu.edu/aabifirm
Vicki Morrone
C. S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems
Outreach Specialist for Organic Vegetable and Field Crops
303 Natural Resources
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-3542/517-282-3557 (cell)
517-353-3834 (Fax)
www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu
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From: Connie Vernon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:17 PM
To: Connie Vernon
Subject: Webinar for farmers on delayed planting and USDA's SURE implications
June 3, Roger Betz and Dennis Stein, both MSU Extension educators, will
hold a webinar from 10 to 11 a.m. to help farmers explore options for
delayed and prevented planting. Growers can log on to the webinar at
http://breeze.msu.edu/aabifirm/. It will also be archived online
immediately following the broadcast and available for later viewing.
Contact Dave Schweikhardt, professor in the Department of Agriculture,
Food and Resource Economics at MSU, at 517-355-2320 or
[log in to unmask] for more information.
The webinar will feature the latest information on the financial
consequences of delayed-planting decisions and the implications of those
decisions for farmers’ participation in programs such as crop
insurance or the USDA’s Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program
(SURE).
“In Michigan, corn planted after June 5 could be subject to a
reduction in the insurance revenue guarantee. It also is the date that
affects farmers’ ability to file an insurance claim for a ‘Prevented
Planting,’” said Schweikhardt. “Producers should be aware of these
timing decisions and determine whether a declaration of a "Prevented
Planting" claim would be the best option or not.”
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