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Kansas Technical Committee Minutes - September 2006

Kansas Technical Committee (KTC) Meeting
Monday, September 25, 2006
10:00 a.m.
Teleconference

Attendees:

  • Bill Fuller, FSA, Manhattan, Kansas
  • Rod Winkler, FSA, Manhattan, Kansas
  • Dennis Gaschler, FSA, Manhattan, Kansas
  • Dawna Ford, FSA, Manhattan, Kansas
  • Jean Kunze Peterson, FSA, Manhattan, Kansas
  • Troy Munsch, NRCS, Salina, Kansas
  • Jon Ungerer, NRCS, Topeka, Kansas
  • Steve Swaffar, Kansas Farm Bureau, Topeka, Kansas
  • Rodney Einsel, Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition, Wilmore, Kansas
  • Steven Sorensen, Kansas Wildlife Federation, Valley Center, Kansas
  • Brian Lindley, Kansas No-Till on the Plains, Wamego, Kansas
  • Brandy Carter, Kansas Cattleman’s Association, Manhattan, Kansas
  • Ronald Brown, State Association of Resource Conservation and Development, Fort Scott, Kansas
  • Cherrie Nolden, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt, Kansas
  • Troy Schroeder, Kansas Rural Center, Albert, Kansas

Troy J. Munsch, Assistant State Conservationist, NRCS, Salina, Kansas, welcomed participants and called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m.

Bill R. Fuller, State Executive Director, Farm Service Agency (FSA) updated the group on the reason for the call. He explained that Kansas currently has 41 counties approved for emergency haying and grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acreage. The current deadline for emergency grazing of CRP is September 30, 2006. The National FSA Office is now giving states an opportunity to extend the emergency grazing deadline for counties to November 10, 2006.

The National FSA Office requires a review and consensus of the KTC and final approval of the Kansas FSA State Committee.

Discussion included:

  • steps in approval process for emergency haying and grazing of CRP
  • the effects on wildlife due to grazing
  • frequency of managed versus emergency haying and grazing on CRP acreage
  • five-inch minimum height when grazing CRP, even if NRCS established a stocking rate for a producer
  • compliance and spot-check requirements on CRP acreage that has been emergency hayed/grazed
  • personal responsibility of producers to properly manage native pasture
  • concerns of CRP becoming a forage production program
  • effect of CRP emergency haying and grazing on price of alfalfa and other forage commodities

Steve M. Swaffar, Kansas Farm Bureau, made the motion to extend emergency grazing of CRP to November 10, 2006. The motion was seconded by Brandy Carter, Kansas Cattleman's Association. The motion was approved by consensus, with no dissenting votes.

The teleconference was adjourned at 10:30 a.m.

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