Special Programs

Authorized by Congress, these programs are usually limited to a year or less, unless reauthorized. Please click on the appropriate program to get more information, including sign-up periods, payments, qualifications, and more!

	Trade Adjustment Assistance Program
	Peanut Program
	Milk Income Loss Contract Program
	Honey Non-Recourse Loan Program

Under this new program, FSA is authorized to make loans to grain producers to build or upgrade farm storage and handling facilities. To learn more, click on the above link to go to the FSFL Program home page! Or click here to view the FSFL Fact sheet (Text Version)

Wheat

The 2002 farm bill provides for fixed, but declining transition payments; nonrecourse marketing assistance loans with marketing loan provisions; and loan deficiency payments for the 1996-2002 crops of wheat. (Text version). 

The 2002 farm bill provides transition payments, nonrecourse marketing assistance loans, and loan deficiency payments for the 1996-2002 feed grain crops...Click here for the complete fact sheet in text.

The 2002 Farm Bill provides for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments  for the 1996-2002 crops of soybeans and minor oilseeds. Click here for the full story (in PDF). (Text version)

• Dairy Indemnity Payment Program (DIPP)

This program makes payments available to dairy producers and manufacturers who have been directed by a public regulatory agency to remove their raw milk from the commercial market because of contamination.  To find out if you are eligible, click here...

• Milk Income Loss Contract Program

Payments under this program will be limited to dairy operations that produced and commercially marketed milk in the United States during the period of December 1, 2001, through September 30, 2005.  Each fiscal year, eligible dairy operations can receive a monthly payment based on monthly milk marketings, up to a maximum of 2,400,000 pounds per separate dairy operation.

Minor Oilseeds (pdf)

The 2002 Farm Bill requires that nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments (LDP) be implemented for the 1996-2002 crops minor oilseeds, including  Safflower, Rapeseed, Canola, Mustard Seed, Sunflower-Oil, Sunflower-Other, Flaxseed, Crambe  Click here for the PDF factsheet. (Text version, here)

FSA operates a national peanut quota program that establishes price support levels for domestically grown peanuts.  Click here (txt) to learn more.

Beneficial Interest & LDPs (pdf)

Did you know that, for a commodity to be eligible for a loan or a loan deficiency payment (LDP), the producer must have beneficial interest in the commodity, in addition to other eligibility requirements?

Make sure you maintain beneficial interest.  Click here to find out how.

CMA/DMA/LSA Process

Did you know that FSA approves cooperative marketing associations (CMAs) to participate in loan and loan deficiency payment (LDP) programs?  Producers who are eligible for loan and LDP programs can market their commodities through their cooperatives. Click here to learn more.  

For more information click here.