SURE Sign-up Deadline Approaching
Producers have less than a month to sign up for the program.
Compiled by staff
Published: Jul 6, 2011
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reminds producers they have until Friday, July 29, 2011, to apply for assistance for 2009 crop losses under the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program. The SURE program provides crop disaster assistance payments to eligible producers on farms that have incurred crop production or quality losses. Vilsack explains that SURE covers producers on farms in disaster counties that incurred crop production, crop-quality losses or both. Anyone with questions should visit their local USDA Farm Service Agency Office.
To be eligible, producers must have suffered at least a 10% production loss on a crop of economic significance and obtained a policy or plan of insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act or the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program, for all economically significant crops. A producer must have a farming interest physically located in a county that was declared a primary disaster county or contiguous county by the Secretary of Agriculture or have actual production on the farm that was less than 50% of the normal production on the farm due to a natural disaster.
A limit of $100,000 per person and legal entity collectively received, directly and indirectly, applies to the combination of payments from SURE and the livestock disaster programs administered by FSA including Livestock Forage Program, Livestock Indemnity Program and Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish. Persons or legal entities whose average nonfarm income exceeds $500,000 are not eligible for SURE payments.
A producer interested in signing up for SURE for their 2009 crops must do so before close of business July 29, 2011, at the county FSA office servicing the producer. The sign-up period for the SURE program for the 2010 crops will be announced at a later date. For more information about USDA Farm Service Agency disaster assistance programs, visit a local FSA county office or disaster.fsa.usda.gov/
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