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In the Spotlight: Disaster Assistance Programs

Recent extreme weather conditions, including flooding and tornadoes, have impacted farmers and ranchers in Missouri. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) offers many programs to help producers recover from losses, including the Livestock Indemnity Program, the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program, Emergency Forest Restoration Program and the Tree Assistance Program. Producers located in counties receiving a primary or contiguous disaster designation are eligible for low-interest emergency loans to help them recover from production and physical losses.

The Emergency Conservation Program provides funding and technical assistance for farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by natural disasters. Compensation also is available to producers who purchased coverage through FSA’s  Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program, which protects non-insurable crops against natural disasters that result in lower yields, crop losses or prevented planting. Eligible producers must have purchased NAP coverage for 2019 crops.

USDA offers a disaster assistance discovery tool that walks producers through five questions to help them identify personalized results of what USDA disaster assistance programs meet their needs. For more information on disaster assistance programs, contact your local USDA service center or farmers.gov/recover.

Farm Service Agency County Committee Elections Launch June 14

The nomination period for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Committees runs June 14 through Aug. 1, 2019, and elections will take place starting in November.

County committees are unique to FSA and serve as a direct link between agricultural communities across the country and USDA. Committees make important decisions about how federal farm programs are administered locally. Their input is vital on how FSA carries out disaster programs, as well as conservation, commodity and price support programs, county office employment and other agricultural issues.

Throughout the nomination period, we’ll introduce you to county committee members from around the nation. To see their stories and to learn more on FSA county committees, visit fsa.usda.gov/elections.

Important Election Deadlines:

• June 14 - Nomination period begins. Request nomination forms from any local USDA Service Center or obtain online at www.fsa.usda.gov/elections
• August 1 - Last day to file nomination forms at the local USDA Service Center
• November 4 - Ballots mailed to eligible voters
• December 2 -  Last day to return voted ballots to the USDA Service Center
• January 1, 2020 - Newly-elected county committee members take office

Missouri State News Releases – Newsletters

• June 14 - FSA County Committee nomination period begins.  
• July 4 - Independence Day Holiday. USDA offices are closed. 
• July 15 - Final date to report CRP, burley tobacco, corn, cotton, forage, grain sorghum, hay, hybrid corn seed, pasture, popcorn, rice, soybeans and all other crops.
• July 15 - End of primary nesting season for Missouri. CRP maintenance can begin on July 16.

Ongoing

• Reports of Failed Acreage must be filed with the County Office before disposition of the crop.

• Reports of Prevented Planting Acreage must be filed with the County Office no later than 15 calendar days after the final planting date for that county.

• Reports of loss under the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-raised Fish Program (ELAP) must be filed within 30 days after the loss is apparent.

• Reports of livestock deaths (due to adverse weather) under the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) must be filed within 30 days after the death is apparent. An application for payment must be filed no later than 90 calendar days after the end of the calendar year in which the eligible loss condition occurred.

• Report any losses for the Noninsured Crop Disaster Program (NAP) within 15 days of when the loss becomes apparent.

Complete List of Deadlines

2019 Customer Calendar (Print Version)

Contact the Missouri State Office at:

Missouri State FSA Office
Parkade Center, Suite 225
601 Business Loop 70 West
Columbia, MO 65203
Phone: 573-876-0925

Missouri State Office Contacts

Missouri State FSA Committee:

Committee Chair Julie Hurst – Atchison County
Marc Allison – Dade County
Cindy Schroeder – Saline County
Will Spargo – Ripley County
Barbara Wilson – Audrain County