IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

• March 15 – July 15^th - Primary Nesting Season for CRP.  No practice or management activity allowed.
• April 19 -  County Committee Meeting
• May 2-5 – FSA employees gone to training - NRCS will be available
• May 31 – Last day to request commodity loan for 2015 grain sorghum, corn and sunflowers
• July 15 - Production submission deadline for 2015 NAP crops.
• August 1 – Deadline to request farm reconstitution for 2016.
• August 1 -   2016 ARC-PLC Enrollment Deadline

FSA OFFICE TO BE CLOSED

The Eads FSA Office will be closed Monday, May 2^nd through Thursday, May 5^th.  The office reopen on Friday, May 6^th.  FSA employees will be attending a state-wide training.  The Service Center will be open as NRCS employees will be available.  Again, this is a state-wide training; therefore FSA offices in the area will be short staffed; therefore plan accordingly.

2016 ARC – PLC Enrollment

The office has your 2016 ARC-PLC contracts ready for signature.  If you are in town, stop in and sign your contracts.  The process will take only a few minutes depending on the number of farms.  The office also has other eligibility paperwork for you to complete while you are in the office.  Again, we prefer you stop Monday – Thursday – any time before 4:30 p.m.  The deadline for enrollment is August 1^st, 2016. 

USDA SERVICE CENTER CONTACT INFORMATION

Telephone

719-438-5851

FSA (Ext 2)

NRCS (Ext 3).

FSA Fax number: fax2mail 844-332-7501

E-mail individuals firstname.lastname@co.usda.gov (Example firstname.lastname@co.usda.gov

dawna.weirich

charla.ferris

hallie.barlow

marvin.watson

marlin.miller

KIOWA COUNTY FARM LOAN CONTACT INFO

Telephone

719-336-3437 (ext2)

Natalie Bond

natalie.bond@co.usda.gov

Mary Rhoades

mary.rhoades@co.usda.gov

SERVICE CENTER OFFICE HOURS: 

Monday - Friday

8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

By appointment only on Friday.