Dairy Producers Can Enroll for 2024 Dairy Margin Coverage Beginning Feb. 28
Payments to Begin Early March
USDA Provides Payments of nearly $800 Million in Assistance to Help Keep Farmers Farming
Immediate Help for Over 13,000 Distressed USDA Farm Loan Borrowers; Begins Process to Provide up to $500 Million More for Up to 23,000 Additional Borrowers
Farmers Can Now Make 2023 Crop Year Elections, Enroll in Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage Programs
Payments Issuing to Producers of 2021 Crops Triggering Safety-Net Program Payments
USDA Announces Conservation Reserve Program General Signup for 2024
Contact:
FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov
Bangor, Maine, March 4, 2024 – The U.S.
2020 Farm Service Agency County Committee Elections Underway
Contact: FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov
Ballots Have Been Mailed to Eligible Voters
USDA Opens People’s Garden Initiative to Gardens Nationwide
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding its People’s Garden Initiative to include eligible gardens nationwide. School gardens, community gardens, urban farms, and small-scale agriculture projects in rural, suburban and urban areas can be recognized as a “People’s Garden” if they register on the USDA website and meet criteria including benefitting the community, working collaboratively, incorporating conservation practices and educating the public.