The streamlining project is not intended to reduce USDA offices (there currently are 2,241 nationwide) or personnel, according to Scuse. Farmers who do not embrace technology still will be able to report crop information in person at their local FSA offices.My problem with that statement is the same I had back in 1992: how do you do a cost-benefit analysis to justify the expense of the hardware and software needed for this without cutting people and offices? It can't be done IMHO.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Followup on ACRSIP
FarmWeeknow has an interview with Mr. Scuse on the streamlining of acreage reports. (ACRSIP). Not much different than my previous post on the subject, except for this:
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