Showing posts with label FSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FSA. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Why Working for FSA Is Worse These Days

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 Sec. Vilsack testifying, link was posted to the Facebook FSA group. At the start he observes that it's no longer true that the county...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

AFIDA and Congress

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 CRS has a paper on the issue of foreign ownership of agricultural land in preparation for the upcoming farm bill.  Two items of note--abo...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

The Hole In FSA Management?

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 FSA has something called Box Onespan, which appears to be an on-line signature manager. I'm guessing from messages on the FSA Employee ...
Monday, February 06, 2023

New EWG Report on Distribution of Farm Payments

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 Various newspapers picked up the EWG report. The lede for one: " The top 10% of recipients of federal farm payments raked in more tha...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Professor Evaluations

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 I follow a fair number of professors on Twitter, mostly historians. I occasionally see tweets complaining about the student evaluations the...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

Complexity of Modern Life

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 Had to go to my bank branch today and talk to a real person, who was very helpful BTW.  It was the first time in years.  I had told a bank ...
Friday, August 05, 2022

Data Sharing in USDA

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 It's been almost 25 years since I retired. In my absence USDA has made progress in getting data sharing among agencies.   Consider this...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Anniversary of AS-400

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 Saw a Facebook post in 2016 commemorating AS-400 (leaving the county FSA office).  Clicked on the hashtag and found some posts about job op...
Saturday, June 04, 2022

Stanford Research on Farm Programs and Politics

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  Here's a Stanford Phd candidate doing research on the relationship between participation in farm programs and political views.
Thursday, February 03, 2022

AFIDA Holes

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  This  points to possible problems in how FSA enforces the AFIDA legislation. I once was responsible for that.  I hoped someday to integrat...
Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Views of USDA--From Outside and Inside

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This report says the federal government doesn't get good marks for its services.  But USDA is one of the highest ranking departments. ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Social Security Administration and FSA

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Washington Post yesterday had an article on the difficulties caused by SSA's switch to remote service.  The agency has over 1200 field ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

USDA Is Last (in Vaccinations)

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 That is reported by GovExec here : "   The Veterans Affairs Department and Social Security Administration joined USDA in bringing up ...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Buying Out Coal Miners as We Did Tobacco Producers

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 Took me a while but after seeing Alec Tabarrok suggest buying coal mines  and discussion on twitter of paying coal miners, I realized ther...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

Vaccine Mandates

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 I gather from this post in the FSA Facebook Group that the issue of complying with the federal vaccine mandate is controversial. I ran acr...
Friday, September 24, 2021

What FSA Employees Have to Deal With

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 I'm taking the liberty of doing a screenshot of a post in the Facebook FSA Employees group: When you're serving many people in all ...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

"Depopulated" ?

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When there's a surplus of eggs because of disruptions of supply chains, what do you do?  You "depopulate" some hens?  No, you ...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Digitized Forms

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I read the FCW piece on this report . I'd forgotten there was a law requiring agencies to digitize their forms and make them fully on-...
Monday, August 02, 2021

The Long Slow Progress of Direct Deposit

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Been 25 years or more since FSA started pushing direct deposit (it was just starting back in the mid 90's before I retired)  According t...
Sunday, August 01, 2021

Modern Farmer Is Confused

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Modern Farmer has a post on the new loan program intended to help in establishing title to heir property.  It has some problems, and I fee...