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Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP)

Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) provides financial help to manufacturers or entities that deliver qualified biomass material to designated biomass conversion facilities for use as heat, power, biobased products or biofuels. Initial assistance will be for the Collection, Harvest, Storage and Transportation (CHST) expenses associated with the delivery of eligible products. Find out more

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

CRP-SAFE allows producers to set up practices that benefit high top priority State wildlife conservation goals through using targeted repair of essential habitat. The goal of SAFE is to create diverse grasslands in 18 southern Michigan counties and pollinator environment in 22 counties in the western Lower Peninsula. Landowners who pick to get involved in the practice may get 90 to one hundred percent of the expense of transforming cropland into wildlife habitat. They get rental payments for 10 to 15 years.

A loan made to qualified applicants to purchase, expand, or make capital improvements to family farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and protection. Maximum loan quantity 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 an eligible applicant to help with the financial expenses of running a farm. Maximum loan quantity is $300,000. A portion of direct operating loan funds is targeted for beginning farmers as mandated areas 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 loan provider and guaranteed by FSA to qualified candidates to purchase, increase the size of, or make capital improvements to family farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and security. Maximum loan quantity is $1,112,000. A percentage of ensured 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 guaranteed farm ownership loans is area 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Find out more

A loan made by another loan provider and ensured by FSA to an eligible applicant to help with the financial expenses of running a farm. Maximum loan amount is $1,112,000. A portion of guaranteed 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 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 offer compensation to qualified livestock producers who have actually suffered grazing losses for covered animals on land that is native or enhanced pastureland with irreversible vegetative cover or is planted particularly for grazing. The grazing losses need to be because of a qualifying dry spell condition during the regular grazing duration for the county. Find out more

Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

The 2014 Farm Bill authorized the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) to offer benefits to animals manufacturers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality triggered by eligible loss conditions, including qualified negative weather, eligible illness and eligible attacks (attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or secured by federal law, consisting of wolves and avian predators). LIP payments amount to 75 percent of the market worth of the suitable livestock on the day before the date of death of the livestock as figured out by the Secretary. Learn More

Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy)

The Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) is a voluntary threat management program for dairy producers licensed by the 2014 Farm Bill through Dec. 31, 2018. Significant modifications to MPP-Dairy for the 2018 protection year are additional authorized by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. The MPP-Dairy offers security to dairy manufacturers when the distinction in between the all milk rate and the typical feed expense (the margin) falls listed below a certain dollar quantity picked by the manufacturer. Learn More

Part VII of subtitle B of Title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359 et seq.), as amended by section 1403 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171), supplies that, at the beginning of each financial year, CCC will establish marketing allocations for locally produced sugar from sugar beets and locally produced sugarcane. The Secretary will make every effort to establish a total allotment quantity that results in no forfeitures of sugar to CCC under the sugar loan program. The Secretary will make quotes of sugar usage, stocks, production, and imports for a crop year as required, however not behind the beginning of each of the second through fourth quarters of the crop year. Prior to the beginning of the , these price quotes must be updated.