David Whitaker

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1,907 appearances 40 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 10 Sep

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

And so, again, we talk about we're meeting farmers where they are.

Yeah.

And that's...

That's a decision that individual farmer makes, right?

And so having the opportunity to do things virtually, digitally, also having that presence in the office, but the technology modernization, so the one farmer, one file piece, we've not done the analysis on how many staff hours that will reduce, but it'll be a bunch.

But the cool thing that's coming is modernized acreage reporting.

And so currently, if you report your acres at FSA, maybe don't report them through RMA,

We're going to give you a paper map and a pencil, and we're going to ask you to literally write corn in that field and the date you planted it.

And once you get your farm all filled out and all those fields, you're going to slide that paper map back across the counter to the program analyst in the office, and then he or she are going to do a data entry.

And they're basically going to enter in everything that you just drew with a pencil on a paper map.

Lottery tendency.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

I mean...

You guys are awesome the way you ask questions, because that was where I was going next.

So there'll be three stages.

First stage is basically developing the platform that it'll operate on.

So it'll be a geospatial map.

And the first year that you go in, you know, we've got the common land units, so the CLU.

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