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Have You Applied for the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program?

By Corey Clark

The Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP) is a government program administered by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). It provides funds to farmers to offset income loss in 2024 due to increased input costs and reduced crop prices.

To qualify for ECAP, you must be actively farming and be responsible for input expenses for a covered crop. You also need to have reported your 2024 crop acreage to FSA for crops planted as well as prevented planting. Eligible crops include corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice and many kinds of legumes and oil seeds.

Your payment is based on how many acres you planted, not how much you harvested. Each crop has a fixed payment per acre. You can find these payment amounts on the USDA’s ECAP website at farmers.gov.

Source : msu.edu

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