Posted: 11.17.2010

Brad Pfaff, Wisconsin Executive Director of USDA's Farm Service Agency, urges Wisconsin farmers and other agricultural producers to vote in FSA county committee elections by December 6, 2010, the deadline for casting ballots.

"FSA county committees provide producers with the opportunity to help implement federal farm programs in their communities," said Pfaff. "It is important that all farmers and ranchers, especially women and minorities, participate in the elections process to ensure the opinions expressed in committee meetings reflect an area's agricultural needs and concerns."

Producers must return ballots to their local FSA offices by the close of business on December 6. Newly elected committee members and alternates take office January 1, 2011.

FSA county committees consist of three to five elected members who help administer federal farm programs at the local level. Committees make decisions on conservation programs; commodity price support loans and payments; disaster assistance payments; and other agricultural issues.

For more information about FSA county committee elections, visit http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=newsroom&subject=landing&topic=cce.

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