{"id":73319,"date":"2016-09-21T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73319"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:34:34","slug":"new-york-state-farm-service-agency-offers-drought-recovery-assistance-to-eligible-farmers-livestock-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73319","title":{"rendered":"New York State Farm Service Agency offers drought recovery assistance to eligible farmers, livestock producers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fsa\"<\/a>The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency in\u00a0New York State reminds farmers of federal farm program benefits that may be available to help eligible\u00a0producers recover from recent drought conditions.\u00a0Twenty-four New York counties recently received a Secretarial Disaster designation.<\/p>\n

There are 15\u00a0primary natural disaster counties, they are: Cayuga, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe,\u00a0Niagara, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Wyoming and Yates; and nine secondary\u00a0natural disaster counties: Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Cortland, Onondaga, Orleans,\u00a0Oswego, and Wayne.<\/p>\n

FSA offers disaster assistance and low-interest loan programs to assist agricultural producers in their\u00a0recovery efforts following qualifying natural disasters, like drought. Available programs and loans\u00a0include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Emergency Loan Program \u2013 Available to producers with agriculture operations located in a\u00a0county under a Secretarial Disaster designation. These low-interest loans help producers\u00a0recover from production and physical losses due to drought.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Emergency Conservation Program – provides emergency funding for farmers and ranchers\u00a0to implement emergency water conservation measures in periods of severe drought. A producer\u00a0qualifying for ECP assistance may receive cost-share levels not to exceed 75 percent of the\u00a0eligible cost of restoration measures. No producer is eligible for more than $200,000 cost\u00a0sharing per natural disaster occurrence.<\/p>\n

The following types of measures may be eligible:<\/p>\n

o drilling and deepening wells<\/p>\n

o developing spring developments and troughs if needed for livestock water or vineyard\/orchard irrigation water supplies<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Livestock Forage Disaster Program – provides compensation to eligible livestock producers\u00a0who suffer grazing losses for covered livestock due to drought on privately owned or cash leased\u00a0land. Only available to primary counties<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tree Assistance Program \u2013 provides assistance to eligible orchardists and nursery tree\u00a0growers for qualifying tree, shrub and vine losses due to natural disaster.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program –\u00a0provides emergency relief for losses due to feed or water shortages which are not adequately\u00a0addressed by other disaster programs. Only available to primary counties<\/p>\n

\u2022 Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program – provides financial assistance to\u00a0producers of non-insurable crops when low yields, loss of inventory, or prevented planting occur\u00a0due to natural disasters (includes native grass for grazing). Eligible producers must have\u00a0purchased NAP coverage for 2016 crops.<\/p>\n

\u2022 HayNet – is an Internet-based Hay and Grazing Net Ad Service allowing farmers and ranchers to\u00a0share ‘Need Hay’ ads and ‘Have Hay’ ads online. Farmers also can use another feature to post\u00a0advertisements for grazing land, specifically ads announcing the availability of grazing land or\u00a0ads requesting a need for land to graze. www.fsa.usda.gov\/haynet.<\/p>\n

Producers must file a Notice of Loss for failed acres on all crops including grasses in a timely fashion,\u00a0often within 15 days of the occurrence or when the losses become apparent. Producers of hand-harvested crops must notify FSA of damage or loss within 72 hours of when the date of damage or loss\u00a0first becomes apparent. For more information on FSA programs, visit http:\/\/disaster.fsa.usda.gov.<\/p>\n

For more information on disaster assistance programs and loans visit www.fsa.usda.gov\/ or contact your\u00a0local FSA Office. To find your local FSA county office, visit http:\/\/offices.usda.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency in\u00a0New York State reminds farmers of federal farm program benefits that may be available to help eligible\u00a0producers recover from recent drought conditions.\u00a0Twenty-four New York counties recently received a Secretarial Disaster designation. There are 15\u00a0primary natural disaster counties, they are: Cayuga, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe,\u00a0Niagara, Ontario, Schuyler, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-j4z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/fsa.jpg?fit=360%2C360&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}