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Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP)

Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) offers monetary assistance to producers or entities that provide eligible biomass product to designated biomass conversion centers for usage as heat, power, biobased items or biofuels. Initial help will be for the Collection, Harvest, Storage and Transportation (CHST) expenses related to the delivery of qualified materials. Learn More

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

CRP-SAFE allows manufacturers to set up practices that benefit high top priority State wildlife conservation goals through the use of targeted restoration of essential environment. The objective of SAFE is to develop diverse 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 one hundred percent of the expense of transforming cropland into wildlife environment. They get rental payments for 10 to 15 years.

A loan made to eligible applicants to buy, expand, or make capital improvements to family farms, or to promote soil and water preservation and security. Maximum loan quantity is $300,000. A portion of direct farm ownership loan funds is targeted for beginning farmers and socially disadvantaged candidates 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 section 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Learn More

A loan made to an eligible candidate to help with the financial costs of running a farm. Maximum loan amount 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 section 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1911). Learn More

A loan made by another loan provider and ensured by FSA to eligible candidates to buy, enlarge, or make capital enhancements to family farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and protection. Maximum loan quantity is $1,112,000. A portion of ensured farm ownership loan funds is targeted for starting 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 area 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Learn More

A loan made by another loan provider and guaranteed by FSA to an eligible applicant to help with the monetary costs of operating a farm. Maximum loan amount is $1,112,000. A portion of ensured 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 ensured operating loans is Section 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1941). Learn More

Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)

The 2014 Farm Bill licensed the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) to supply payment to eligible livestock manufacturers who have suffered grazing losses for covered animals on land that is native or better pastureland with permanent vegetative cover or is planted particularly for grazing. The grazing losses need to be because of a certifying drought condition throughout the normal grazing period for the county. Learn More

Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

The 2014 Farm Bill licensed the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) to offer benefits to livestock producers for livestock deaths in excess of regular death brought on by eligible 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, consisting of wolves and avian predators). LIP payments are equal to 75 percent of the marketplace worth of the suitable animals on the day before the date of death of the livestock as determined 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 manufacturers licensed by the 2014 Farm Bill through Dec. 31, 2018. Significant changes to MPP-Dairy for the 2018 protection year are more authorized by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. The MPP-Dairy offers security to dairy producers when the difference between the all milk price and the typical feed expense (the margin) falls listed below a specific dollar amount picked by the producer. 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 modified by area 1403 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171), offers that, at the beginning of each , CCC will establish marketing allocations for domestically produced sugar from sugar beets and locally produced sugarcane. The Secretary will strive to establish a general allocation amount that leads to no loss of sugar to CCC under the sugar loan program. The Secretary will make quotes of sugar consumption, stocks, production, and imports for a crop year as needed, but not later on than the beginning of each of the second through 4th quarters of the crop year. Prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, these estimates must be upgraded.