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Agriculture Mediation Program

Helps farming producers, their lenders, and other persons straight affected by the actions of USDA fix disagreements. Through mediation, an experienced, neutral individual (arbitrator) helps participants evaluate their disputes, recognize alternatives, and agree on services. Mediation is a valuable tool for settling conflicts in various USDA program areas. These include farm loans, farm and conservation programs, wetland determinations, rural water loan programs, grazing on nationwide forest system lands, and pesticides use. The program is licensed through 2005 by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100-233) (7 U.S.C. 5101 (5104 ), as changed by the Grain Standards and Warehouse Improvement Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-372). Find out more

Beginning Farmer Down Payment Loan

A kind of farm ownership loan made to qualified applicants to fund a part of a property purchase. The statutory authority for starting farmer deposit loans is area 310E of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (Pub. L. 87- 128) (7 U.S.C. 1935). Learn More

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

Provides a voluntary program to agricultural producers to assist them safeguard ecologically sensitive land. Producers registered in CRP plant long-term, resource-conserving covers to improve the quality of water, control soil disintegration, and improve wildlife environment. In return, CCC provides participants rental payments and cost-share help. Contract period is in between 10 and 15 years. CRP was licensed by section 1231 of the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended (Pub. L. 99-198)(16 U.S.C. 3831, et seq.). Learn More

Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)

As the name suggests, this program is an improved version of the really effective Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The Michigan CREP improvements are committed staff and monetary incentives supplied by the State of Michigan. CREP is a special preservation program that allows the CRP to be customized to fulfill the needs of the State. CREP is a Federal-State conservation collaboration program that targets significant environmental results associated with Agriculture. CREP priority locations include the Lake Macatawa, River Raisin, and Saginaw Bay Watersheds. Find out more

Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment (DCP) Program

Provides payments to qualified manufacturers on farms enrolled for the 2002 through 2007 crop years. There are two kinds of DCP payments direct payments and counter-cyclical payments. Both are computed utilizing the base acres and payment yields developed for the farm. Base acres and payment yields are developed for the following products: barley; corn; grain sorghum, including dual-purpose varieties that can be gathered as grain; oats; canola, crambe, flax, mustard, rapeseed, safflower, sesame and sunflower, including oil and non-oil ranges; peanuts, beginning in DCP; rice, omitting wild rice; soybeans; upland cotton; and wheat. DCP was authorized by sections 1101-1108 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171) (7 U.S.C. 7911 et seq.). Find out more

Direct Farm Ownership Loan

A loan made to qualified applicants to purchase, enlarge, or make capital enhancements to family farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and protection. Maximum loan quantity is $200,000. A portion of direct farm ownership loan funds is targeted for starting 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 section 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Learn More

Direct Operating Loan

A loan made to an eligible candidate to assist with the monetary expenses of running a farm. Maximum loan amount is $200,000. 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 section 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1911). Find out more

Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

Provides emergency financing for farmers and ranchers to restore farmland damaged by wind disintegration, floods, hurricanes, or other natural catastrophes, and for bring out emergency water preservation measures throughout durations of serious dry spell. The natural disaster needs to create new conservation issues, which, if not dealt with, would: impair or threaten the land; materially affect the efficient capability of the land; represent uncommon damage which, other than for wind disintegration, is not the type likely to recur often in the exact same area; and be so expensive to repair that Federal assistance is, or will be, needed to return the land to efficient farming use. Authorized by area 401 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-334) (16 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.). Find out more

Loans are readily available to eligible applicants who have actually sustained substantial monetary losses from a disaster. Maximum exceptional loan quantity is $500,000. The statutory authority for emergency loans is section 321 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (Pub. L. 87-128) (7 U.S.C. 1961). Find out more

Farm Storage Facility Loan Program

USDA may make loans to manufacturers to construct or update farm storage and handling facilities. Commodities covered under this storage program are rice, soybeans, dry peas, lentils, small chickpeas, peanuts, sunflower seeds, canola, rapeseed, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, and other oilseeds as CCC determines and announces. Corn, grain sorghum, oats, wheat, or barley harvested as whole grain or aside from whole grain are likewise eligible. The program is authorized under the CCC Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.). Discover more

Grassland Reserve Program (GRP)

GRP is voluntary, and it offers landowners the chance to safeguard, bring back, and boost meadows on their residential or commercial property. Section 2401 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171) added section 1238N to the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838n) to authorize this program. USDA's NRCS, FSA, and Forest Service are collaborating GRP implementation. The program will save susceptible grasslands from conversion to cropland or other usages and save important meadows by helping preserve viable ranching operations. Discover more

Guaranteed Farm Ownership Loan

A loan made by another loan provider and ensured by FSA to eligible applicants to purchase, expand, or make capital improvements to household farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and security. Maximum loan quantity is $852,000 (for FY 2006). A percentage 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 guaranteed farm ownership loans is section 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Learn More

Guaranteed Operating Loan

A loan made by another lending institution and ensured by FSA to an eligible applicant to help with the financial expenses of operating a farm. Maximum loan amount is $852,000 (for FY 2006). A portion of guaranteed 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 guaranteed operating loans is Section 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1941). Learn More

Indian Tribal Land Acquisition Program

A loan offered to Indian tribes for acquiring independently held lands within their respective bookings limits. The statutory authority for Indian Tribal Land Acquisition loans is Pub. L. 91-229 (25 U.S.C 490).

Milk Income Loss Contract Extension (MILCX) Program

This program compensates dairy producers when domestic milk prices fall listed below a particular level. MILCX payments are made on a monthly basis when the Boston Class I (BCI) milk rate per hundredweight (cwt) falls listed below $16.94. The payment rate portions will be; 34% of the distinction in between $16.94 and the BCI milk price for October 1, 2005 through August 31, 2007; and 0% of the difference in between $16.94 and the BCI milk cost for September 2007.
This program was licensed by The Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 2005, (the 2005 Act), Section 1101, which licensed the extension of the Milk Income Loss Contract Program (MILC). The MILC program was initially licensed by Section 1502 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-1710 (7 USC 7981). Learn More

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

Provides financial assistance to qualified manufacturers affected by drought, flood, cyclone, or other natural catastrophes. This federally financed program covers noninsurable crop losses and planting avoided by catastrophes. Producers who are landowners, tenants, or sharecroppers who share in the risk of producing a qualified crop are qualified. Eligible crops include industrial crops and other farming products produced for food (including livestock feed) or fiber for which the disastrous level of crop insurance is unavailable. Also qualified for NAP protection are controlled-environment crops (mushrooms and floriculture), specialty crops (honey and maple sap), and value loss crops (aquaculture, Christmas trees, ginseng, ornamental nursery, and turfgrass sod). Authorized by section 196 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (Pub. L. 104-127) (7 U.S.C. 7333), as changed. Discover more

Nonrecourse Marketing Assistance Loan and Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP) Program

Provide producers interim funding at harvest time to fulfill capital needs without having to sell their products when market costs are typically at harvest-time lows. Allowing manufacturers to store production at harvest helps with more organized marketing of products throughout the year. Marketing assistance loans for covered products are nonrecourse because the products are pledged as loan collateral and manufacturers have the choice of providing the vowed security to CCC as full payment for the loan at maturity.

A manufacturer who is qualified to get a loan, but who consents to pass up the loan, might get an LDP. The LDP rate equates to the amount by which the appropriate loan rate where the commodity is kept surpasses the alternative loan payment rate for the particular product.

Sections 1201-1209 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171) (7 U.S.C. 7231 et seq.) (2002 Act) continue nonrecourse marketing assistance loan and LDP provisions of previous legislation. The 2002 Act supplies for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and LDP's for the 2002-2007 crops of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans, other oilseeds (consisting of sunflowers, canola, safflower, flaxseed, rapeseed, mustard seed, crambe and sesame), rice, upland cotton, peanuts, honey, wool, mohair, dry peas, lentils, and little chickpeas. Learn More

Sugar Loan Program and Sugar Marketing Allotments

Provides that CCC administer nonrecourse loans for the 2002 through 2007 crops. The Sugar Loan Program provides nonrecourse loans to processors of locally grown sugarcane and sugar beets. This program helps to support America's sugar industry and ensure the well being of farming in the United States. Authorized by Section 156 of the Federal Agriculture Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272), as changed by section1401 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171).

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 area 1403 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171), provides that, at the start of each , CCC will develop marketing allotments for locally produced sugar from sugar beets and locally produced sugarcane. The Secretary will make every effort to establish an overall allotment amount 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 essential, however not later than the beginning of each of the second through fourth quarters of the crop year. Prior to the beginning of the financial year, these price quotes need to be updated. Find out more

Sugar Storage Facility Loan Program

Provides loans to processors of domestically-produced sugarcane and sugar beets for the building and construction or updating of storage and dealing with facilities for raw sugars and refined sugars. Loans might be made just for the purchase and setup of qualified storage facilities, completely affixed managing devices, or the renovation of existing facilities. Authorized under section 1402 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171) (7 U.S.C. 7971). Learn More

Youth Loans

Provides running type loans to qualified rural youth candidates to finance a modest income-producing farming project. Maximum loan quantity is $5,000.