During the third week of October 2018, the USDA Louisiana Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the LSU Agricultural Center will jointly conduct a series of seed cotton program informational workshops. USDA FSA personnel and LSU AgCenter faculty will provide information related to the recently announced seed cotton program and will cover such areas as: administrative signup; program overview; generic base acre reallocation; program yield update; and program election. Economic information will also be presented on 2017 and 2018 crop year ARC-CO and PLC projected farm program payments for covered commodities.

Scheduled workshops are as follows:

Date	Time	Location
Tuesday, October 16th	9:30 to 11:30 a.m.	LSU AgCenter West Carroll Extension Office 195A Community Road Oak Grove, LA 71263
Tuesday, October 16th	5:00 to 7:00 p.m.	Rayville Civic Center 827 Louisa Street Rayville, LA 71269
Wednesday, October 17th	9:30 to 11:30 a.m.	River of Life Church 127 Ellis Lane Winnsboro, LA 71295
Wednesday, October 17th	5:00 to 7:00 p.m.	Panola Woods Country Club 0266 Country Club Road Ferriday, LA 71334
Friday, October 19th	9:30 to 11:30 a.m.	LSU AgCenter-Charles DeWitt Arena 8125 Hwy 71 S (south of LSUA Campus) Alexandria, LA 71302

For more information on these workshops, please contact Dr. Mike Deliberto at (225) 578-7267 or mdeliberto@agcenter.lsu.edu

Appreciation is expressed to the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, USDA Louisiana Farm Service Agency, the Louisiana Cotton and Grain Association, and the Louisiana State University AgCenter.