David Whitaker

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1,907 appearances 40 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 6d ago

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Farm4Profit Podcast · BRIDGE Payments, Farm Bill Plans & The Future of USDA Tech · 11 Mar 2026 podcast

Paper.

And we could talk about acreage reporting in a minute if you want to.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, so we knew for a number of reasons how we needed to modernize, you know, be more – so advance technology a little bit farther when it comes to farmers engaging with the agencies.

And so there's a number of reasons for that.

One is –

If you put a form in an envelope and run it through the U.S.

Postal Service, it costs, depending on the program, it costs us between $1.2 million, $1.3 million for each program, just to mail to mail.

an application out.

Well, I'm sure there were several.

I'm actually not being critical of the US Postal Service.

That just happens, right?

But it does, yeah.

There's machines and they suck under the bottom and they're gone.

So we knew we could save some money there.

And then just, we've been asked by, and it's not strictly generational, but we've been asked over the years to have a virtual portal, a way to interact

Not only with FSA, but the other agencies within the mission area, you know, in a way that we don't have to go to the office.

We've got better things to do with our time.

Yeah.

And so that was, this has been the option.

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