Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program

Department Of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency

To provide financial assistance to producers of non-insurable crops when low yields, loss of inventory, or prevented planting occur due to natural disasters.

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Helps farmers of eligible crops recover from financial losses due to natural disasters. It provides payments when disasters prevent planting or reduce expected crop production.

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Funding
Up to $300,000
Deadline
Rolling
Status
Rolling Intake
Category
Agriculture, Food & Fisheries
Organization
Department Of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency

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What Is This Program?

NAP helps manage and reduce production risks faced by producers of eligible commercial crops or other agricultural commodities during a coverage period. NAP reduces financial losses that occur when natural disasters (damaging weather or adverse natural occurrence that is an eligible cause of loss) cause a loss of expected production or actual value for value loss crops, or where producers are prevented from planting an eligible crop because of an eligible cause of loss in a coverage period.

What Benefits Are Offered?

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Provides financial assistance to agricultural producers for noninsurable crop losses due to natural disasters, such as low yields, loss of inventory, or prevented planting. The program offers maximum payment limitations of $125,000 for catastrophic coverage losses and $300,000 for buy-up coverage losses.

Who Is Eligible?

Business Size: small, medium, large

Industries: agriculture, farming

Region: United States

Demographics: Socially Disadvantaged Farmers, Limited Resource Farmers, Beginning Farmers, Veteran Farmers

Other Criteria: producers of noninsurable crops, have crops with either catastrophic or buy-up coverage, meet payment limitations, comply with conservation regulations, follow RMA Loss Adjustment Standards for crop loss determination

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FAQFrequently Asked Questions

This program is available to small, medium, large businesses in agriculture, farming industries located in United States.

This program offers funding up to $300,000.

This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.

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