Local USDA Payments Top $4 Million
In 2002, Glasscock County’s Farm Service Agency made payments to agricultural producers totaling $4.6 million, according to County Executive Director John Kinnibrugh.
The amounts per major program were (figures rounded): production flexibility program $2.1 million; loan deficiency payments $185,000; environmental quality incentive program $132,000; non-insured crop disaster assistance program $739,000; conservation reserve program $129,000; livestock compensation program $91,000; lamb meat adjustment assistance program $35,000; emergency conservation program (fencing) $65,000 and direct counter cyclical payments $1,150,000.
FSA payments were over $9.5 million in both 2001 and 2000, and in excess of $12 million in 1999.