The language in the current farm bill allows farmers to make a new election each year on what commodity program to implement on their farm.  With the loss of a Grain Marketing Specialist on the State Extension Level, Tom Miller Ballard County ANR Agent worked with Dr. Greg Halich and Dr. Kenny Burdine to develop some material that other ANR Agents across the state could use to help their producers.  Tom Miller also reached out to specialists at Kansas State, University of Missouri and Ohio State, either directly or attending zoom presentations from these institutions.

With the drastic run up in commodity prices over the last year, the decision was much easier to determine this year, so material for training was much simpler.  A one page decision sheet was developed to be distributed by the Local FSA offices when questions were asked.  Tom Miller still presented live presentations at the Purchase Area Farm Analysis annual banquet.  He also presented to the Ky Soybean Association and made the presentation accessible to the Ky Corn Growers and the Ky Small Grain Growers.  Several individual agents were coached over telephone calls and zoom meetings to try to get the word out to growers across the state.