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Agriculture Mediation Program

Helps farming producers, their lenders, and other individuals straight affected by the actions of USDA fix disagreements. Through mediation, a trained, impartial individual (mediator) helps participants examine their disputes, determine choices, and concur on solutions. Mediation is an important tool for settling disputes in various USDA program areas. These include farm loans, farm and preservation programs, wetland determinations, rural water loan programs, grazing on nationwide forest system lands, and pesticides use. The program is authorized through 2005 by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100-233) (7 U.S.C. 5101 (5104 ), as amended by the Grain Standards and Warehouse Improvement Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-372). Discover more

Beginning Farmer Deposit Loan

A kind of farm ownership loan made to eligible applicants to fund a portion of a realty purchase. The statutory authority for starting farmer down payment loans is section 310E of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (Pub. L. 87- 128) (7 U.S.C. 1935). Discover more

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

Provides a voluntary program to agricultural manufacturers to assist them safeguard environmentally delicate land. Producers registered in CRP plant long-term, resource-conserving covers to enhance the quality of water, control soil disintegration, and improve wildlife environment. In return, CCC offers individuals rental payments and cost-share help. Contract duration is between 10 and 15 years. CRP was licensed by area 1231 of the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended (Pub. L. 99-198)(16 U.S.C. 3831, et seq.). Find out more

Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)

As the name indicates, this program is a boosted version of the really successful Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The Michigan CREP enhancements are committed personnel and monetary rewards supplied by the State of Michigan. CREP is an unique conservation program that allows the CRP to be tailored to fulfill the needs of the State. CREP is a Federal-State conservation partnership program that targets substantial ecological impacts related to Agriculture. CREP top 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 calculated 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, consisting of dual-purpose ranges that can be harvested as grain; oats; canola, crambe, flax, mustard, rapeseed, safflower, sesame and sunflower, including oil and non-oil varieties; peanuts, beginning in DCP; rice, excluding wild rice; soybeans; upland cotton; and wheat. DCP was licensed 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.). Learn More

Direct Farm Ownership Loan

A loan made to qualified applicants to acquire, increase the size of, or make capital improvements to family farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and security. Maximum loan quantity is $200,000. A portion 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 section 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Find out more

Direct Operating Loan

A loan made to a qualified candidate to help with the financial costs of running a farm. Maximum loan quantity is $200,000. A portion of direct 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 direct operating loans is area 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1911). Find out more

Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

Provides emergency situation financing for farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland harmed by wind erosion, floods, typhoons, or other natural catastrophes, and for performing emergency situation water preservation steps throughout periods of severe dry spell. The natural catastrophe needs to create new conservation issues, which, if not dealt with, would: impair or threaten the land; materially affect the efficient capacity of the land; represent uncommon damage which, other than for wind erosion, is not the type most likely to repeat regularly in the exact same location; and be so expensive to repair that Federal support is, or will be, needed to return the land to productive agricultural usage. Authorized by area 401 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-334) (16 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.). Learn More

Loans are available to qualified candidates who have actually incurred significant monetary losses from a catastrophe. Maximum impressive loan amount is $500,000. The statutory authority for emergency situation 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 build or update farm storage and dealing with 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 identifies and reveals. Corn, grain sorghum, oats, wheat, or barley harvested as entire grain or other than entire grain are also qualified. The program is authorized under the CCC Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.). Learn More

Grassland Reserve Program (GRP)

GRP is voluntary, and it uses landowners the chance to secure, bring back, and enhance 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 license this program. USDA's NRCS, FSA, and Forest Service are collaborating GRP application. The program will conserve susceptible grasslands from conversion to cropland or other uses and conserve important meadows by helping keep practical ranching operations. Learn More

Guaranteed Farm Ownership Loan

A loan made by another lender and guaranteed by FSA to eligible candidates to buy, increase the size of, or make capital enhancements to family farms, or to promote soil and water preservation and protection. Maximum loan quantity is $852,000 (for FY 2006). A portion of guaranteed 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 guaranteed farm ownership loans is area 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Discover more

Guaranteed Operating Loan

A loan made by another lender and guaranteed by FSA to a qualified candidate to assist 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 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

Indian Tribal Land Acquisition Program

A loan offered to Indian tribes for buying independently held lands within their respective reservations borders. 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 manufacturers when domestic milk rates fall below a particular level. MILCX payments are made on a regular monthly basis when the Boston Class I (BCI) milk price per hundredweight (cwt) falls below $16.94. The payment rate percentages will be; 34% of the difference between $16.94 and the BCI milk rate for October 1, 2005 through August 31, 2007; and 0% of the difference in between $16.94 and the BCI milk rate 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 originally authorized by Section 1502 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-1710 (7 USC 7981). Find out more

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

Provides financial support to qualified manufacturers impacted by drought, flood, hurricane, or other natural catastrophes. This federally financed program covers noninsurable crop losses and planting avoided by disasters. Producers who are landowners, renters, or sharecroppers who share in the risk of producing a qualified crop are eligible. Eligible crops include industrial crops and other agricultural commodities produced for food (consisting of animals feed) or fiber for which the devastating level of crop insurance coverage is not available. Also eligible for NAP coverage are controlled-environment crops (mushrooms and floriculture), specialized crops (honey and maple sap), and worth loss crops (aquaculture, Christmas trees, ginseng, ornamental nursery, and turfgrass sod). Authorized by area 196 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (Pub. L. 104-127) (7 U.S.C. 7333), as modified. Learn More

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

Provide producers interim financing at harvest to fulfill capital needs without having to sell their products when market value are typically at harvest-time lows. Allowing producers to store production at harvest assists in more orderly marketing of products throughout the year. Marketing support loans for covered commodities are nonrecourse due to the fact that the products are pledged as loan collateral and manufacturers have the choice of delivering the promised collateral to CCC as complete payment for the loan at maturity.

A producer who is eligible to get a loan, but who consents to forgo the loan, may get an LDP. The LDP rate equates to the amount by which the suitable loan rate where the product is stored goes beyond the alternative loan repayment rate for the particular commodity.

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 help loan and LDP arrangements of previous legislation. The 2002 Act attends to 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 small chickpeas. Discover more

Sugar Loan Program and Sugar Marketing Allotments

Provides that CCC administer nonrecourse loans for the 2002 through 2007 crops. The Sugar Loan Program offers nonrecourse loans to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets. This program assists to support America's sugar industry and make sure the well being of agriculture 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 changed by area 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 establish marketing allotments for domestically produced sugar from sugar beets and locally produced sugarcane. The Secretary will aim to establish an overall allocation amount that results in no forfeitures of sugar to CCC under the sugar loan program. The Secretary shall make estimates of sugar consumption, 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 start of the fiscal year, these price quotes should be upgraded. Find out more

Sugar Storage Facility Loan Program

Provides loans to processors of domestically-produced sugarcane and sugar beets for the construction or updating of storage and handling centers for raw sugars and refined sugars. Loans might be made just for the purchase and setup of qualified storage centers, completely attached handling 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). Find out more

Youth Loans

Provides operating type loans to qualified rural youth candidates to finance a modest income-producing agricultural job. Maximum loan quantity is $5,000.