Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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The 2012 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Election Program (ACRE) enrollment begins January 23, according to Farm Service Agency Acting County Executive Director Debbie Sweet. DCP and ACRE are Federal farm programs which provide payments to producers of eligible crops in order to provide a financial farm safety net. ACRE provides revenue protection against low market prices or low state and farm yields. Like DCP, a farm must have base acres of a covered commodity in order to be enrolled in ACRE....
"Working for Washington wheat and barley farmers has been the highlight of my career in the grain industry," Mick said. "I'm proud of what we have been able to accomplish as an industry and the leadership role the WGC has taken on issues of national significance." Mick began his career in the grain industry as an assisstant administrator of the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee, later rising to the post of administrator. He subsequently spent eight years as director of U.S. Wheat Associate's Southeast Asia office in Sin...
