Continuous certification option available for perennial forage 

Press release

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding agricultural producers with perennial forage crops of an option to report their acreage once, without having to report that acreage in subsequent years, as long as there are no applicable changes on the farm.

Interested producers can select the continuous certification option after USDA’s Farm Service Agency certifies their acreage report.   

“FSA’s continuous certification option simplifies future acreage reporting of perennial crops, and it can also help streamline the application process for many of our farm programs...