The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Farm Service Agency (FSA)  recently announced that Adair County is now authorized for emergency haying or grazing use of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). 

Adair County was automatically approved for the CRP emergency haying and grazing when the county reached severe drought levels on the US Drought Monitor and are outside of the dates May 15th through August 1st. Also, the local FSA county committees can review forge loss data and make recommendations to the Iowa FSA State Committee to authorize emergency haying and grazing. 

CRP participants must receive an approval to emergency hay by August 31st and to emergency graze by September 30 from their county FSA Office. Eligible participants can seek approval for either emergency haying or grazing but cannot do both on the same acres. For more details click the link here.