Some Dickinson County farmers who were enrolled in one of the USDA’s largest commodity support programs for the 2024 crop year believe they were significantly underpaid. Scott Titterington, who farms near Milford, says they’re holding a meeting this week in Spirit Lake to discuss the matter.
The Agricultural Risk Coverage program provides payments when a farmer’s revenue for a specific crop falls below the historical average. Titterington says it appears A-R-C payments to farmers in neighboring Emmet and Kossuth Counties were around 90 dollars an acre.
Titterington says they’ve learned just over 98,000 acres in Dickinson County were enrolled in the ARC program for 2024. Based on the estimates for Emmet and Kossuth Counties, the USDA would have paid all the Dickinson County farmers much more.
The meeting to plot strategy will be held Tuesday at 10 am in the Dickinson County Expo Building in Spirit Lake.
