The Farm Service Agency (FSA) has approved emergency haying of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres in 21 Kansas counties affected by drought. The list includes Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Gray, Ford, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Kiowa, McPherson, Meade, Morton, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Sedgwick, Seward and Stafford counties. All of these counties, except Sedgwick, also are approved for CRP emergency grazing.
Emergency haying is approved through August 31, 2011. Participants must leave at least 50% of each field or contiguous CRP fields unhayed for wildlife. Hay must be removed from the field within 30 days of the end of the haying period. Emergency haying and grazing is not allowed on the same acreage.
CRP participants in approved counties must contact their local FSA office to request emergency haying or grazing on an individual basis. Participants must accept a 25% reduction in the annual rental payment for the actual acres hayed or grazed.
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