OABA Signs Letter to USDA Secretary Perdue

The Ohio AgriBusiness Association, along with other state agricultural organizations, has signed a letter to USDA Secretary Sonny Purdue requesting clear guidance on long-term assistance plans to help farmers with 2019 planting decisions. The letter raises concerns of delayed planting issues and a rapidly emerging livestock feed crisis, and calls on the USDA to immediately make the following provisions for 2019: 

• Allow planting and normal harvest, that includes making silage and baleage, and grazing of forage crops/cover crops on prevent plant acreage for 2019 without penalty and without date restrictions.
• Allow harvest, that includes making silage and baleage, and grazing of forages on CRP ground and all eligible acres for 2019 without penalty and date restrictions.

Click here to read the full letter.