WVFSA: IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETINGFOR GILMER & CALHOUN FARMERS & RANCHERS - 01.31.12

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that Aflred Lewis, State Executive Director for WV FSA and members of his management team have scheduled a public meeting in Gilmer County on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM at the Gilmer County Recreation Center Dining Hall located at 1365 Sycamore Run Rd in Glenville.

FSA’s public meeting will be the only one held to take public comment on USDA’s proposed office consolidation plan in which the Gilmer-Calhoun Counties FSA office is being considered for consolidation. Producers can also provide written comment by emailing “alfred.lewis@wv.usda.gov”  or sending written comment to WV State FSA Office, 1550 Earl Core Rd., Morgantown, WV 26505-1049 no later than February 10, 2012.

All public comments will be taken into full consideration prior to development or implementation of a final consolidation plan.

For more information, contact WV Farm Service Agency at 304.284.4800.

We need to support keeping the FSA office in Gilmer County, With everything else we’ve lost, we don’t need to lose this and make it more difficult for those that live here and farm.