By Forrest Laws
Delta Farm Press
Most row crop farmers with acreage of any size know they must be “actively engaged” in their farming operations to remain eligible to receive payments from the Agricultural Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage and other government farm programs.
The problem, according to Mark Daniel Maloney, an attorney from Decatur, Ala., is that producers and their advisers must navigate a number of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency or FSA regulations to make sure they remain actively engaged.