What are FSA boundaries?

Answer:

FSA boundaries, sometimes referred to as CLUs, are the boundaries used by the USDA's FSA Office and insurance companies to track planted acres and Actual Production History (APH).

These record-keeping boundaries are often drastically different from the boundaries that a farmer actually uses to plant their fields (which Traction Enterprise calls Operational Boundaries).

FSA boundaries have three identifiers:

1. Farm number
2. Tract number
3. CLU number

Learn more about how the government is electronically storing the info.

Farmers often face a situation where one field has two landowners (and therefore two FSA farm/tract/CLU numbers that you need to report on).

The example below shows a Traction Enterprise farm field with two different FSA boundaries. Traction Enterprise allocates production records proportionally to the separate FSA boundaries during FSA reporting.

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