Dickinson County, Iowa (RI) — Some farmers in Dickinson County who were enrolled in one of the USDA’s largest commodity support programs for the 2024 crop year believe they were significantly underpaid.
Scott Titterington, who farms near Milford, says they’re holding a meeting next week in Spirit Lake.
The Agricultural Risk Coverage program provides payments when a farmer’s revenue for a specific crop falls below the historical average.
Titterington says it appears ARC payments to farmers in neighboring Emmet and Kossuth Counties were around $90 an acre.
Titterington says they’ve learned just over 98,000 acres of Dickinson County farmland was enrolled in the ARC program in 2024. Based on the estimates for Emmet and Kossuth Counties, the USDA would have paid all the Dickinson County farmers who got ARC payments millions more.
The meeting to plot strategy will be held Tuesday, January 6th at 10 a.m. in the Dickinson County Expo Building in Spirit Lake. If the weather doesn’t cooperate on Tuesday, Titterington says they’ll meet Wednesday at the same time and in the same place in Spirit Lake.
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