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Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP)

Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) supplies monetary assistance to producers or entities that provide eligible biomass product to designated biomass conversion centers for usage as heat, power, biobased products or biofuels. Initial support will be for the Collection, Harvest, Storage and Transportation (CHST) costs associated with the shipment of eligible materials. Discover more

Conservation Reserve Program - State Acres For Wildlife Enhancement (CRP-SAFE)

CRP-SAFE enables producers to install practices that benefit high concern State wildlife conservation objectives through the usage of targeted remediation of vital habitat. The goal of SAFE is to produce diverse grasslands in 18 southern Michigan counties and pollinator habitat in 22 counties in the western Lower Peninsula. Landowners who pick to take part in the practice might receive 90 to 100 percent of the expense of transforming cropland into wildlife environment. They receive rental payments for 10 to 15 years.

A loan made to qualified candidates to buy, enlarge, or make capital enhancements to family farms, or to promote soil and water preservation and security. Maximum loan amount is $300,000. A portion of direct farm ownership loan funds is targeted for beginning farmers and socially disadvantaged applicants as mandated by sections 346 and 355 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (Pub. L. 87-128) (CONACT) (7 U.S.C. 1994 and 7 U.S.C. 2003), respectively. The statutory authority for direct farm ownership loans is area 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Find out more

A loan made to a qualified applicant to assist with the financial costs of running a farm. Maximum loan quantity is $300,000. A portion of direct operating loan funds is targeted for starting farmers as mandated sections 346 and 355 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (Pub. L. 87-128) (CONACT) (7 U.S.C. 1994 and 7 U.S.C. 2003), respectively. The statutory authority for direct operating loans is area 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1911). Learn More

A loan made by another lending institution and ensured by FSA to eligible candidates to buy, enlarge, or make capital improvements to family farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and protection. Maximum loan amount is $1,112,000. A percentage of guaranteed farm ownership loan funds is targeted for beginning farmers as mandated by sections 346 and 355 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (CONACT) (Pub. L. 87-128) (7 U.S.C. 1994 and 7 U.S.C. 2003), respectively. The statutory authority for ensured farm ownership loans is section 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Learn More

A loan made by another lender and ensured by FSA to an eligible applicant to help with the financial costs of operating a farm. Maximum loan amount is $1,112,000. A percentage of ensured operating loan funds is targeted for beginning farmers as mandated sections 346 and 355 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (Pub. L. 87-128) (CONACT) (7 U.S.C. 1994 and 7 U.S.C. 2003), respectively. The statutory authority for guaranteed operating loans is Section 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1941). Find out more

Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)

The 2014 Farm Bill authorized the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) to supply compensation to qualified livestock manufacturers who have actually suffered grazing losses for covered animals on land that is native or better pastureland with long-term vegetative cover or is planted particularly for grazing. The grazing losses should be because of a qualifying dry spell condition during the normal grazing period for the county. Learn More

Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

The 2014 Farm Bill licensed the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) to provide benefits to livestock manufacturers for livestock deaths in excess of regular mortality caused by qualified loss conditions, including eligible negative weather condition, qualified disease and eligible attacks (attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or secured by federal law, including wolves and avian predators). LIP payments amount to 75 percent of the market worth of the relevant animals on the day before the date of death of the livestock as figured out by the Secretary. Discover more

Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy)

The Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) is a voluntary danger management program for dairy manufacturers licensed by the 2014 Farm Bill through Dec. 31, 2018. Significant changes to MPP-Dairy for the 2018 protection year are more licensed by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. The MPP-Dairy deals security to dairy producers when the difference between the all milk price and the average feed cost (the margin) falls below a particular dollar amount chosen by the producer. Find out more

Part VII of subtitle B of Title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359 et seq.), as changed by section 1403 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171), supplies that, at the beginning of each , CCC will develop marketing allotments for locally produced sugar from sugar beets and domestically produced sugarcane. The Secretary will aim to develop an overall allocation amount that results in no loss of sugar to CCC under the sugar loan program. The Secretary shall make quotes of sugar consumption, stocks, production, and imports for a crop year as required, but not behind the start of each of the second through 4th quarters of the crop year. Prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, these quotes should be updated.