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Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP)

Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) offers financial support to manufacturers or entities that provide eligible biomass product to designated biomass conversion facilities for use as heat, power, biobased items or biofuels. Initial assistance will be for the Collection, Harvest, Storage and Transportation (CHST) expenses connected with the delivery of qualified products. Learn More

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

CRP-SAFE permits manufacturers to set up practices that benefit high concern State wildlife conservation objectives through using targeted remediation of essential habitat. The goal of SAFE is to produce varied meadows 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 converting cropland into wildlife environment. They get rental payments for 10 to 15 years.

A loan made to eligible applicants to acquire, increase the size of, or make capital improvements to household farms, or to promote soil and water preservation and defense. Maximum loan quantity is $300,000. A percentage of direct farm ownership loan funds is targeted for beginning farmers and socially disadvantaged applicants as mandated by 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 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 monetary costs of operating a farm. Maximum loan quantity is $300,000. A percentage of direct operating loan funds is targeted for starting 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). Discover more

A loan made by another lending institution and ensured by FSA to eligible candidates to buy, enlarge, or make capital enhancements to household farms, or to promote soil and water preservation and defense. Maximum loan amount is $1,112,000. A portion of guaranteed farm ownership loan funds is targeted for beginning farmers as mandated by areas 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). Find out more

A loan made by another lending institution and guaranteed by FSA to a qualified applicant to help with the financial costs of operating a farm. Maximum loan quantity is $1,112,000. A percentage of guaranteed 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 ensured operating loans is Section 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1941). Discover more

Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)

The 2014 Farm Bill licensed the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) to offer compensation to qualified animals manufacturers who have actually suffered grazing losses for covered livestock on land that is native or enhanced pastureland with irreversible vegetative cover or is planted particularly for grazing. The grazing losses should be due to a certifying drought condition throughout the normal grazing duration for the county. Learn More

Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

The 2014 Farm Bill licensed the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) to supply advantages to livestock producers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality brought on by qualified loss conditions, consisting of qualified adverse weather condition, eligible illness and eligible attacks (attacks by animals reestablished into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law, including wolves and avian predators). LIP payments are equivalent to 75 percent of the marketplace value of the applicable livestock on the day before the date of death of the animals as figured out by the Secretary. Find out 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 authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill through Dec. 31, 2018. Significant modifications to MPP-Dairy for the 2018 coverage year are more authorized by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. The MPP-Dairy deals security to dairy manufacturers when the distinction between the all milk cost and the average feed cost (the margin) falls below a specific dollar amount 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 start of each financial year, CCC will develop marketing allocations for domestically produced sugar from sugar beets and domestically produced sugarcane. The Secretary will aim to develop a total allocation amount that results in no forfeits of sugar to CCC under the sugar loan program. The Secretary shall make estimates of sugar intake, stocks, production, and imports for a crop year as necessary, however not behind the start of each of the second through fourth quarters of the crop year. Prior to the beginning of the , these quotes must be updated.