Producer Page: Tariff Payment

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Created: Thursday, 30 August 2018 09:05
Published: Thursday, 30 August 2018 05:00
Written by Mark
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The Market Facilitation Payment (also known as the tariff payment)

 

Some of the details of this new financial assistance for farmers has been announced.  The payments are as follows:

Corn:  1 cent per bushel

Soybeans:  $1.65 per bushel

This round of payment is on 50% of your 2018 production. 

Pork:  $8 per head

This payment is based on your hog inventory as of August 1, 2018

There is a $125,000 payment limitation on this aid.  However the limit is separate from other programs so it will not count against any ARC-County or PLC limits.

There may be another payment in the future “if warranted”………we’ll wait and see on that one.

A calculation example:

                              ---100 acres of soybeans yielding 50 bushels per acre equals 5000 bushels total production

                              ---5000 bushels x $1.65 payment rate x 50% payment level =  $4,125 total payment  ($41.25 per acre)

                               ---100 acres of corn yielding 180 bushels per acre equals 18,000 bushels total production

                               ---18,000 bushels x .01 payment rate x 50% payment level = $90 total payment  (90 cents per acre)

No need to rush into the FSA office as a corn and soybean farmer, you will need to be able to verify your 2018 production, and the staff probably doesn’t know a whole lot more than you do at this point about the paperwork needed.   Touch base with them later in September. 

Be safe this harvest!!!!!

 

Mark

 

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Mark has worked at Peoples State Bank since 2003, serving as lead agricultural lending officer and bank Senior Vice President. He is also a member of the Board of Directors. Mark has an extensive background in the financial services industry, possessing both investment and insurance licensing and is fully accredited as a crop insurance agent.

He and his wife, Kate, an elementary teacher in Blue Earth, live on and manage the home farm near Easton. Their daughter, Amanda, is a Physician Assistant at UHD Hospital and daughter, Sara, is teaching and coaching at Fairmont Public Schools. 

You can reach Mark by email or at 507-553-3155.

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