New Jersey
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Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops Program (MASC) is now accepting applications through January 8th for financial assistance for specialty crop growers.
Visit the MASC program website or your local FSA office for more information.
click here for the MASC Factsheet.
Find Your FSA Location
Loans & Financial Assistance
Click here for January loan rates
Lindsay Caragher
Deputy State Executive Director
New Jersey State Committee
- Alfred Murray | Committee Chair | Audubon
- Erick Doyle | Member | Flemington
- Stephen Lee IV | Member | Chatsworth
- Rajesh Sinha | Member | Sandyston
- Anna Trapani | Member | Clarksburg
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News
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National Deadlines
- Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops Program
- Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish - January 30, 2025
- Livestock Forage Disaster Program
- Livestock Indemnity Program
- Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC)
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Each year, state committees will review and approve or disapprove county committee recommended changes or additions to specific combinations of crops.
Double-cropping is approved when the two specific crops have the capability to be planted and carried to maturity for the intended use, as reported by the producer, on the same acreage within a crop year under normal growing conditions. The specific combination of crops recommended by the county committee must be approved by the state committee.
Double-cropping is approved in New Jersey on a county-by-county basis. Click here to see the 2025 Approved Double Cropping Combination List or contact your local FSA Office for a list of approved double-cropping combinations for your county.
A crop following a cover crop terminated according to termination guidelines is approved double cropping and these combinations do not have to be approved by the state committee.
Approved Double Cropping Combinations
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Farmers in the following counties are eligible for Emergency Loans through the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)
- Secretarial Designation S5908 - New Jersey
- For Drought beginning on 5/19/2024
- New Jersey Primary Counties: Gloucester, Salem
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland
- Loan application deadline: 08/11/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5907 - New Jersey
- For Drought beginning on 6/05/2024
- New Jersey Primary Counties: Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean, Salem
- Loan application deadline: 08/11/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5906 - New Jersey
- For Drought and Excessive Heat beginning on 6/01/2024
- New Jersey Primary Counties: Burlington, Camden, Ocean
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Atlantic, Gloucester, Mercer, Monmouth
- Loan application deadline: 08/11/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5905 - New Jersey
- For Drought and Excessive Heat beginning on 6/25/2024
- New Jersey Primary Counties: Hunterdon, Somerset
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Union, Warren
- Loan application deadline: 08/11/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5875 - New York
- For Hurricane Debby from 08/05/2024 - 08/10/2024
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Sussex, Passaic
- Loan application deadline: 07/28/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5889 - Pennsylvania
- For Drought beginning on 11/19/2024
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Gloucester
- Loan application deadline: 07/25/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5872 - New Jersey
- For Excessive Rain and High Winds beginning on 07/16/2024
- New Jersey Primary Counties: Sussex
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Morris, Passaic, Warren
- Loan application deadline: 07/15/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5871 - New Jersey
- For Excessive Heat beginning on 06/01/2024
- New Jersey Primary Counties: Morris, Sussex, Warren
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Essex, Hunterdon, Passaic, Somerset, Union
- Loan application deadline: 07/15/2025
- Administrator's Designation N1779 - New Jersey
- For Excessive Rain and High Winds beginning on 07/16/2024
- New Jersey Primary Counties: Hunterdon, Somerset
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Union, Warren
- Loan application deadline: 05/27/2025
- Secretarial Designation S5785 - Delaware
- For Drought and Excessive Heat beginning on 06/01/2024
- New Jersey contiguous counties: Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
- Loan application deadline: 05/27/2025
Please contact your local County Office for more information.
New Jersey Disaster Designations
- Secretarial Designation S5908 - New Jersey
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The Farm Service Agency is seeking to hire loss adjuster (LA) throughout the state. LAs are:
- required to have knowledge of field crops and specialty crops, as well as a thorough understanding and execution of crop adjusting guidelines and program provisions, as applicable to FSA programs. LA’s are self-employed; therefore, health and retirement benefits are not provided. LA’s are responsible for paying all taxes on earned income.
- responsible for obtaining equipment necessary to perform required inspection/appraisal duties. Some equipment such as cameras and GPS measuring devices may be available through the FSA county office.
- required to complete training
For additional information please contact Aly Dyson, NJ FSA Farm Program Disaster Specialist, Alyson.Dyson@usda.gov.
Farm Service Agency is Seeking Loss Adjusters
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NAP Coverage Closing Dates
May 1- Nursery
August 1
- Strawberries
September 30
- Flowers
- Grass (SOD)
- Garlic
- Grass (Hay)
- Mixed Forage
- Rye
- Teff
November 20
- Apricots
- Caneberries
- Cherries
- Grapes
- Onions
- Pears
- Plums
December 21
- Honey
- Asparagus
- Beets
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Greens
- Herbs
- Horseradish
- Kohlrabi
- Leeks
- Lettuce
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Radishes
- Rhubarb
- Turnips
- Water Cress
March 15
- Beans
- Brussel Sprouts
- Canary Melon
- Cantaloupes
- Celery
- Corn-PR
- Crenshaw Melon
- Cucumbers
- Eggplant
- Honeydew
- Korean Golden Melon
- Oats
- Okra
- Peppers
- Potatoes, Sweet
- Pumpkins
- Rutabaga
- Shallots
- Sorghum-FG
- Squash
- Sunflower
- Tomatillos
- Tomatoes
- Watermelon
- Yam
Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP
