JULY 2020
Vol. XXI No. 6 P.O. Box 997 Conrad, MT 59425-0997
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Advisers assistance applying for economic disaster loans
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University of Wyoming Extension Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) advisers across the state can help agribusiness owners applying for Economic Injury Disaster Loans. SBDC state director Jill Kline said advisers are helping agribusiness owners prepare for the applications. Agricultural businesses include those engaged in the production of food and fiber, ranching, and raising of livestock, aquaculture and all other farming and agricultural-related industries, according to the SBA. The program can provide funds and an up to $10,000 advance to businesses experiencing temporary difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s not a difficult application necessarily, but you want to prepare ahead of time, so you know what to have,” Kline said. “You want to have everything you need beforehand. It’s all online and once you hit submit, it disappears.” Local SBDC advisers can be found by going to https:// www.wyomingsbdc.org/contact and filling out the form or using the map. Additional information can be found on the U.S. Department of Treasury’s COVID-19 Relief website https://treasury.gov and at the Wyoming SBDC’s COVID-19 resource webpage www.wyomingsbdc.org/covid19/. For more information, contact SBDC regional director Bruce Morse at 307-754-2139.
UPCOMING AUCTIONS
July 1 - 24, Fritz Auction, Consignment, Online.................................................A5 July 1 - 29, Shobe Auction & Realty, Lybeck Estate, Online.............................A7 July 7 - 21, Pate Auction Inc., Sight Master Inc., Online....................................A2 July 13 - 23, Smeltzer Auctions & Real Estate, Doug Nelson Trucking, Online... ............................................................................................................................A4 July 16, Shobe Auction & Realty, Lenz Farm & Household, Moore MT............A3 July 18, Mills Auction Service, Custom Heating & Sheet Metal, Miles City MT... ............................................................................................................................A6 July 18, Stan Howe & Associates/Front Range Auctioneers, Freedman Living Estate/Estate, Dewey MT..................................................................................A8 July 25, Mills Auction Service, Jorgerson, Ashland, MT.................................A10 July 27 - Aug 6, Smeltzer Auctions & Real Estate, Wibaux Downsizing, Online. ..........................................................................................................................A12 Aug 1, GSI Auction Service, Barness Estate, Scobey, MT................................A4 Aug 8, Logan Auction Service, Inc., Lepage Retirement/Moving, Worden MT.... ..........................................................................................................................A12
2018 canola PLC payments for North Dakota
From Northern Canola Growers Association The North Dakota Farm Service Agency has tallied the final 2018 Canola Price Loss Coverage (PLC) Payments for the state of North Dakota. Total payments were $69 million for the 1.325 million base acres of canola in the state. Payments averaged $52 per acre based on a payment rate of $.0435 per pound. This rate is based off the difference between the Marketing Year Average Price for canola and the Reference Price. Due to the depressed commodity prices, payments to canola growers were the second largest in the short history of the PLC Program. Based on projected prices, 2019 PLC payments may likely be 25 percent larger, which will result in the largest payments to date for canola growers.
OTHER DATED EVENTS
July 24 - 25.........Carbon County 4-H & FFA Sale, Online..................................A3
Here’s a place to visit when you are “social distancing.” The Skalkaho Pass, 7,258 feet above sea level, is a pass in the Sapphire Mountains in southwest Montana traversed by Montana Highway 38. Skalkaho Falls is about half way and White water tumbles 150-feet from the Sapphire Mountains, pushing its way into Skalkaho Creek below. If you decide to make the trip make sure you have good weather, road is narrow with no guard rails in areas.
USDA allows extensions on insurance deadlines, deferral of interest
USDA News Release Extended Deadlines and Interest DeUSDA’s Risk Management Agency ferrals (RMA) is making further adjustments to RMA is authorizing AIPs to provide assist producers during the COVID-19 additional time for policyholders to make pandemic. Specifically, Approved Insurance payment of premium and administrative Providers (AIPs) are authorized to extend fees and to waive accrual of interest the the deadlines for payment of premiums earlier of 60 days after their scheduled payand administrative fees, defer the resulting ment due date or the termination date on accrual of interest and to extend the corpolicies with premium billing dates between rection time period for acreage reports or May 1, 2020, and July 31, 2020. AIPs are other forms. “RMA continues to add more flexibilities CONTINUED ON PAGE A2 to assist America’s farmers and ranchers during this very difficult time,” RMA AdPRIVATE TREATY ministrator Martin Barbre said. “We will make adjustments as needed to ensure that Feddes Herefords, Manhattan MT...............................C17 J Bar E Ranch, Plentywood MT...................................C17 the Federal crop insurance program continMaloney Angus & Simmental, Turner MT....................A41 ues to serve the risk management needs of McMurry Cattle, Billings MT........................................C17 our nation’s producers.”
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