Spokane, Wash., Jan. 11, 2018- U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently announced the individuals who will serve on the Washington USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) state committee. The state committee is responsible for the oversight of farm programs and county committee operations, resolving appeals from the agriculture community, and helping to keep producers informed about FSA programs.

(SPOKANE, Wash.), Oct. 23, 2017 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Washington Farm Service Agency (FSA) Loan Chief Houston Bruck reminds producers that FSA offers specially targeted farm ownership and farm operating loans to underserved applicants as well as beginning farmers and ranchers.

(SPOKANE, WA) Nov. 29, 2016 — Farmers and ranchers have extra time to vote in U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency elections due to a deadline extension according to FSA’s Washington State Executive Director, Judy Olson. The deadline to submit ballots for the 2016 County Committee elections is now December 13, 2016. FSA is collecting ballots at the agency’s county offices.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini today announced that additional funding will be made available to assist more than 1,900 approved applicants who are awaiting farm operating loans. The funds, which were reprogrammed by FSA with the approval of Congress, will leverage up to $185 million in additional lending for direct and guaranteed farm operation loans and will allow the agency to address up to 30 percent of its projected shortfall of funds until the next federal fiscal year resumes on Oct. 1.

(Spokane, WA), August 15, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Washington state continues to accept Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) offers for the Highly Erodible Land (HEL) Initiative. This initiative is part of the Continuous CRP enrollment being conducted in FSA offices statewide.

SPOKANE, WA August 18, 2015 – Washington's farmers and ranchers affected by this year's devastating drought and wildfires may receive financial relief from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency according to FSA State Executive Director Judy Olson.

SPOKANE, WA July 15, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that beginning Sept. 1, farmers and ranchers can apply for financial assistance to help conserve working grasslands, rangeland and pastureland while maintaining the areas as livestock grazing lands.

SPOKANE, June 18, 2015 – Farmers who elected either the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) still have another step to complete participation in these new Farm Bill programs according to Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Judy Olson. Program enrollment runs through September 30, 2015 at county Farm Service Agency offices.

SPOKANE, April 8, 2015 – The Farm Service Agency will distribute about $600,000 in federal disaster assistance through the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) to agricultural producers affected by wildfires and other natural disasters in Washington state last year. Wildfires, drought-related grasshopper infestations and colony collapse caused about 70 producers to lose livestock forage or suffer loss of honeybees.