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   Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP)
   
   Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) provides monetary help to manufacturers or entities that deliver qualified biomass material to designated biomass conversion facilities for usage as heat, power, biobased items or biofuels. Initial assistance will be for the Collection, Harvest, Storage and Transportation (CHST) costs connected with the shipment of eligible materials. Find out more
   
   Conservation Reserve Program - State Acres For Wildlife Enhancement (CRP-SAFE)
   
   CRP-SAFE enables producers to set up practices that benefit high priority State wildlife conservation objectives through using targeted restoration of important environment. The goal of SAFE is to produce varied meadows in 18 southern Michigan counties and pollinator environment in 22 counties in the western Lower Peninsula. Landowners who select to take part in the practice might get 90 to 100 percent of the cost of converting cropland into wildlife habitat. They get rental payments for 10 to 15 years.
   
   A loan made to qualified applicants to acquire, expand, or make capital improvements to household farms, or to promote soil and water conservation and defense. Maximum loan amount is $300,000. A percentage of direct farm ownership loan funds is targeted for starting farmers and socially disadvantaged candidates as mandated by 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 farm ownership loans is section 302 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1922). Discover more
   
   A loan made to a qualified applicant to assist with the monetary costs of operating a farm. Maximum loan amount is $300,000. A percentage 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 area 311 of the CONACT (7 U.S.C. 1911). Learn More
   
   A loan made by another loan provider and guaranteed by FSA to eligible candidates to buy, expand, or make capital improvements to family farms, or to promote soil and water preservation and protection. Maximum loan quantity is $1,112,000. A portion of guaranteed farm ownership loan funds is targeted for beginning 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). Find out more
   
   A loan made by another loan provider and guaranteed by FSA to a qualified applicant to assist with the financial costs of operating a farm. Maximum loan quantity is $1,112,000. 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). Find out more
   
   Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
   
   The 2014 Farm Bill licensed the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) to offer settlement to qualified animals producers 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 must be due to a certifying drought condition throughout the regular 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 animals producers for animals deaths in excess of typical death brought on by eligible loss conditions, including qualified adverse weather, eligible illness and qualified attacks (attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or safeguarded by federal law, including wolves and avian predators). LIP payments are equivalent to 75 percent of the market worth of the appropriate animals on the day before the date of death of the animals as determined by the Secretary. Find out more
   
   Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy)
   
   The Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) is a voluntary risk management program for dairy manufacturers authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill through Dec. 31, 2018. Significant changes to MPP-Dairy for the 2018 year are more authorized by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. The MPP-Dairy deals protection to dairy producers when the difference in between the all milk price and the typical feed cost (the margin) falls below a particular dollar amount selected by the producer. Discover more
   
   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), provides that, at the start of each financial year, CCC will establish marketing allotments for domestically produced sugar from sugar beets and domestically produced sugarcane. The Secretary will make every effort to establish a general allocation amount that results in no forfeitures of sugar to CCC under the sugar loan program. The Secretary will make estimates of sugar consumption, stocks, production, and imports for a crop year as needed, but not behind the beginning of each of the second through fourth quarters of the crop year. Prior to the beginning of the financial year, these quotes must be updated.