Articles Tagged with ''FSA''

USDA's Farm Service Agency announced Thursday that producers who miss the July 15 acreage reporting deadline will not face a late filing fee if they file within a month of the deadline.

Producers across the country are enrolling in the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, and they’re doing so with the help of employees that are either teleworking or back in the office for the first time in months.

A $16 billion program to offer direct payments to producers is not yet ready for signup, but the Department of Agriculture is urging producers to begin several steps of the application process ahead of time.

The Department of Agriculture is now giving producers with eligible crops 12 months instead of nine to repay marketing assistance loans.

The Agriculture Department is accepting 3.4 million acres into the land-idling Conservation Reserve Program following the first general signup in four years.

The White House is asking Congress for $45.8 billion to cover the rising cost to the Agriculture Department and other departments and agencies of responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

Farmers who had crops damaged by drought or excessive moisture in 2018 or 2019 can start applying March 23 for disaster assistance authorized by Congress last year.

Producers in the Prairie Pothole region will soon be able to sign up for a pilot project included in the 2018 farm bill meant to encourage the planting of cover crops.