LEWISTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency has begun distributing average crop revenue election payments for revenue losses associated with certain crops in Maine.

Discontinued by the 2014 Farm Bill, the ACRE program provided producers with protection from revenue losses for crops grown in 2009-2013.

Crops eligible for October payments include wheat grown in the 2013 crop year. Three producers on three farms in Maine enrolled 285.3 acres in ACRE.

The Budget Control Act passed by Congress in 2011 requires these payments to be reduced by 5.1 percent.

For more information on ACRE, go to www.fsa.usda.gov.