Farm Bill meetings set at Rocky Boy, Fort Belknap

MSU News Service

Computer workshops on the 2014 Farm Bill will be held at Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy’s Indian reservations.

The programs will be put on by Montana State University Extension, in partnership with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency.

The Fort Belknap program is today, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Aaniiih Nakoda College Library.

Rocky Boy’s meeting will be Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Kennewach Building on the Stone Child College campus.

They are part of a series of workshops being held at reservations around Montana.

The meetings will offer an educational opportunity to work with a MSU Extension economics specialist one-on-one on the 2014 Farm Bill decisions tools. Those decision tools will assist producers in assessing the FSA’s Agricultural Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs, and the Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program Buy-Up option.