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Crop Acreage Reporting Requirements and Deadlines
May 14, 2025
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Donny Green, in DeKalb and Cannon counties, reminds producers to report planted, prevented planted, and failed acres to establish or retain FSA program eligibility.
For planted crops, the following acreage reporting deadlines are applicable for DeKalb and Cannon counties for the 2025 crop year:
July 15: corn, soybeans, cucumbers, okra, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, strawberries, tomatoes, watermelons, cantaloupes, peas, and perennial forage (hay and pasture)
July 31: hemp
Aug. 15: green beans
Dec. 15: fall-seeded small grains (wheat)
The following exceptions apply to the above acreage reporting dates:
If the crop has not been planted by the above acreage reporting date, the acreage must be reported no later than 15 calendar days after planting is completed.
If a producer acquires additional acreage after the above acreage reporting date, the acreage must be reported no later than 30 calendar days after purchase or acquiring the lease. Appropriate documentation must be provided to the county office.
If a perennial forage crop is reported with the intended use of “cover only,” “green manure,” “left standing” or “seed,” the acreage must be reported by July 15, 2025.
Producers must report crop acreage they intended to plant but, due to natural disaster, were prevented from planting. Prevented planting acreage must be reported on form FSA-576, Notice of Loss, no later than 15 calendar days after the final planting date, as established by FSA and the Risk Management Agency. According to Green, the Crop Year 2025 final planting date for corn is May 20, 2025, and the final planting date for soybeans is June 15, 2025.
Producers with failed acres should also use form FSA-576, Notice of Loss, to report failed acres. For losses on crops covered by the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program and crop insurance, producers must file a Notice of Loss within 15 days of the occurrence of the disaster or when losses become apparent. Producers must timely file a Notice of Loss for failed acres on all crops including grasses.
Please visit the DeKalb/Cannon County FSA office or call 615-597-8225 to schedule an appointment to file your crop year 2025 crop acreage report. To find your local FSA office, visit www.farmers.gov .
Indiana Fugitive for Child Sex Crimes Arrested in Smithville
May 14, 2025
By: Dwayne Page
Working with federal authorities, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department today (Wednesday) assisted in the arrest of a Georgia man in Smithville wanted for Indiana child sex crimes.
47-year-old Michael Andrew Denton of Snapping Shoals Georgia is charged in a fugitive from justice warrant with four counts of child molestation and three counts of child molestation with intercourse. He was booked into the DeKalb County Jail on a $75,000 bond and his court date is May 29. Denton is awaiting extradition to Indiana.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said according to a U.S. Marshal’s media release, “A U.S. Marshal’s Task Force in Tennessee working a collateral lead from the U.S. Marshal’s Service in Indiana today (Wednesday) arrested a man wanted in Indianapolis, Indiana for multiple sex crimes against children. The warrant for Denton’s arrest was issued in the superior court of Marion County, Indiana on May 7, 2025”
“On May 9, the Indianapolis metro police department requested the assistance of the US Marshal’s Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force in locating and apprehending Denton. Upon developing information, Denton was residing in the Smithville area. The Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force requested the assistance of the U.S. Marshal’s Middle Tennessee Fugitive Task Force and located Denton at a residence on McMinnville Highway in Smithville. Denton was arrested without incident with the assistance of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department and taken to the DeKalb County jail”.
DCHS Class of 2025’s Best of the Best Awarded for Academic and Athletic Achievement
May 14, 2025
By: Dwayne Page
Seventy plus members of the DCHS Class of 2025 were rewarded for years of academic and athletic achievements during Tuesday evening’s senior awards night program held in the high school gym.
WJLE and participating sponsors are presenting a photo gallery of the DCHS Class of 2025.
Click on the link below to view the senior formals.
WJLE recorded the program and will feature it Wednesday, May 14 at 9:30 a.m. on WJLE AM 1480/FM 101.7 and on the Live audio stream at www.wjle.com. The program sponsors are DTC Communications, FirstBank, Glynn’s Auto Sales, and Optimus Pest Solutions.
Commencement for the Class of 2025 will be Friday, May 16 at 7 p.m. at DCHS
