Report of Acreage

Instructions

Instructions For FSA-578 Manual
REPORT OF ACREAGE
This form is used by program participants of the Noninsured Disaster Assistance Program,
Crop Disaster Program, Loan Deficiency Program, Marketing Assistance Program and
Tobacco program. The purpose of the form is to collect acreage data to determine program
eligibility.
Submit the original of the completed form in hard copy or facsimile to the appropriate
USDA servicing office.
Customers who have established electronic access credentials with USDA may
electronically transmit this form to the USDA servicing office, provided that (1) the
customer submitting the form is the only person required to sign the transaction, or (2) the
customer has an approved Power of Attorney (Form FSA-211) on file with USDA to sign
for other customers for the program and type of transaction represented by this form.
Features for transmitting the form electronically are available to those customers with
access credentials only. If you would like to establish online access credentials with USDA,
follow the instructions provided at the USDA eForms web site.

Producers must complete Items 1 through 20 and Items 22A through
23. The County Office will complete the second row of boxes for
determined acres in Item 17.
Items 1-20
Fld Name /
Item No.
1
Farm No.
2
Farmland

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Enter the Farm number.
Note: The farm number is assigned by the COF.
Enter total farmland.

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Cropland
4
Program Yr.
5
Operator
Name and
Address
6
Other Farms
7
Key

8
Names of
other
Producers
9
ID Number
10
Other Farms
11
Photo No. Legal
Description
12
Tract No.

Enter total cropland.
Enter Applicable program year.
Enter operator name and address.

Enter other farms for which the operator has an interest.
Enter the key number for each Aother producer@.
Note: The key is assigned to each Aother producer@ in
order to easily assign producers to a field in Item 18. For
example, 3 producers would be assigned key numbers of
1, 2 and 3. When indicating which producers are
associated with each individual field, the key numbers
would be entered in Item 18.
Enter the names of Aother producers@ that have an interest
in the farm being reported. These names will correspond
with the key numbers in Item 7.
Enter the last 4 digits of the ID that corresponds with the
other producers in Item 8.
Enter additional farms that the Aother producer@ has an
interest.
Enter the Photo number or legal description of the farm/tract
being reported.

Enter the tract number.

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Field No.

Enter the field number from the aerial photo.
Example: If the entire field has been planted to one crop
then the field number would be a whole number. If the field
has been planted with several crops, then the field must be
sub-divided and field numbers assigned, such as 1a, 1b and
1c.
Enter the crop and type name, for the field entered.

14
Crop or Land
Use
Example: Corn, some of the valid types is: Blue, Popcorn,
Sweet and Yellow.
Wheat, some of the valid types are Hard Amber Durum, Hard
Red Spring, and Hard White Winter

15
Practice

16
Crop Status

Note: A complete listing of crops and types can be obtained
from the County Office.
Enter the practice.
I - Irrigated
N-Non-irrigated.
O-Other – O should only be used when entering Honey or
Maple Sap.
Enter the status code.
I B Initial
S B Subsequent
Subsequent Failed
P B Prevented D B Double-cropped
Subsequent Prevented
F B Failed
R B Repeat
cropped Failed

E - Experimental

SFB

I F B Initial Failed

SPB

I P B Initial Prevented

D F B DoubleD P B Double-

cropped
Prevented

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Enter the crop and total acreage of the crop. Across the top
Crop or Land of the form in the blanks, list the different crops that have
use Summary been planted. In each corresponding box under each title
crop, enter the total acreage except for the following:
• maple trees, enter the number of taps followed by the
letter T.
• honey, enter the number of hives, followed by the
letter H.

18
Key
19
Share
20
Total
Operator
Report

Note: The maximum characters that can be entered to
identify the crop name is 12. The second row of boxes are
for determined acres. County Office Use Only.
Enter the key number that corresponds with the correct
Aother producer@ from Items 7 and 8.
Enter the operator=s share of the crop being reported.
Enter the total acreage reported for each crop.

Item 21 is for County Office use only.
Items 22A-23
Fld Name /
Item No.
22A
Operator's
Signature

22B
Date

Instruction
Enter the Operator=s signature.
If you are mailing or faxing this form, print the form and
manually enter your signature. If this form is approved for
electronic transmission and you have established credentials
with USDA to submit forms electronically, use the buttons
provided on the form for transmitting the form to the USDA
servicing office.
Enter the date of the Operator=s signature.

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Remarks/
Sketched

Enter any remarks.

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