AIR JANUARY 27, 1999

Thank you Mark and good morning everyone. If you are still having problems remembering to write 1999 on your checks instead of 1998, don’t look know because we’re about to roll into February. Cattle producers remember the Cowherd nutrition workshop in Clay Center tomorrow night, the 28th at the Clay County Extension Office starting at 7:30. A couple of really good speakers on the program, if you need directions give me a call. If you missed the land values and rental arrangements meeting we had a couple of weeks ago you’ve got a couple of other opportunities coming up to hear this meeting. It’ll be held in Marysville on the afternoon of February 3rd and in Clay Center the afternoon of February 23rd. And locally, be sure to call up and register for the Estate Planning workshop that will be at the 4-H/Sr. Citizens building on Monday, February 15th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Roger McEowan from K-State will be leading that program and it will be good! We’re on a roll here, so let’s just keep going. For those of you who need to brush up on your ag marketing, there will be an opportunity to do so in Manhattan coming up with the first session on February 10th. Be looking for more information on this series of meetings. A quick note from our friends at the Farm Services Agency. The USDA has a program called SHOP which stands for Small Hog Operation Payment. All hog operations that marketed less than 1,000 hogs during the last 6 months of 1998, have a gross income less than $2.5 million in 1998 and still have a farm operation are eligible for a SHOP payment based on $5 per slaughter hog and $1.80 per feeder pig, with a payment cap of $2,500 per operation. Hogs marketed under fixed price or cost plus contracts are not eligible. You’ll need to sign up at the FSA office from February 1 - 12th and you need to be able to certify the number of hogs and pigs you marketing during that time frame. Don’t have a lot of time left this morning after all those announcements so let’s just throw one more in here and be done with it - If you are a landlord and you want to terminate a farm tenancy then you are just about out of time. Kansas Statutes state that said termination must be done in writing, 30 days prior to March 1st, which means you’d better get it done between now and Saturday OR you are stuck with the same tenant for another year.

This is Chuck Otte, County Extension Agent, with Ag Outlook ’99.

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