The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency reminds producers of the July 14 deadline to apply for two programs. These are the Emergency Relief Program Phase Two and the Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program.
These revenue-based programs help offset revenue losses from 2020 and 2021 natural disasters or the COVID-19 pandemic.
“With a focus on revenue-based assistance, our goal is to provide all producers of eligible crops and livestock, including new and underserved producers, with the financial support they need to recover from the compounded, adverse economic impacts of market and weather instabilities,” says Gene Schriefer, executive director of FSA in Wisconsin.
Eligibility
For ERP Phase Two, producers must have suffered a decrease in gross revenue in 2020 or 2021 due to losses of crops from a natural disaster. Help goes primarily to producers not covered by Federal Crop Insurance or NAP. This is because crops covered by Federal Crop Insurance and NAP were included in the assistance under ERP Phase One.
For PARP, a producer must have been in the business of farming during the 2020 calendar year. And they must have had a 15 percent or greater decrease in gross revenue in 2020 compared to a baseline year.
FSA offers an online ERP tool and PARP tool. These can help producers determine allowable gross revenue for each respective program. Through cooperative agreements with FSA, nine organizations are also providing free ERP Phase Two application assistance to producers: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/cooperative-agreements/index
Contact your local service center to learn more: https://www.farmers.gov/working-with-us/service-center-locator
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