The USDA Risk Management Agency will allow farmers in select counties in North and South Dakota to hay, graze or chop cover crop fields two months early.
Forty-two counties in the Dakotas have excessive moisture and flooding.
Under Secretary Bill Northey says this is a one-year adjustment to September 1st instead of November first, to help those farmers “remain good stewards of the land” and provide quality forage for livestock this fall.
