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Emergency haying and grazing available in Ohio
Ohio Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Steve Maurer has announced that Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has authorized that Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres in Ohio have been released for emergency haying and grazing.
According to Maurer, for those with CRP contracts there are requirements that must be followed.
• Under emergency haying at least fifty percent of each field or contiguous fields must be left unhayed for wildlife. Under emergency grazing at least twenty-five percent of each field or contiguous CRP fields must be left ungrazed for wildlife, or graze not more than seventy-five percent of the stocking rate as determined by NRCS.
• Under emergency haying and grazing CRP participants will be assessed a payment reduction based on the number of acres actually hayed or grazed times the CRP annual rental payment times ten percent.
• Participants may sell hay harvested under emergency provisions. CRP participants who do not own or lease livestock may rent or lease the haying or grazing privilege to an eligible livestock producer.
Before emergency haying and grazing can take place, producers must notify their local Farm Service Agency office and receive approval.
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