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ECAP functions are coming in
A Farm Service Company official says producers are signing up for the recently-released Emergency Commodity Help Program (ECAP) for the 2024 crop yr.
Greg Biba with Wisconsin’s Farm Service Company tells Brownfield there are 3 ways to enroll. “USDA has mailed functions, and so they’ll be receiving these functions within the mail. They will anticipate them and full it that manner. There’s an choice to go and do it on-line, and once more they’ll come into our workplace.”
Biba says many FSA workplaces are setting appointments so producers can deal with a number of issues together with their ECAP software in the identical journey. “The DMC (Dairy Margin Protection) program arising right here, the deadline right here on March thirty first and ARC-PLC on the fifteenth of April and so I’ve already heard studies again from our workplaces that we’ve obtained producers doing that in order that’s good. That’s actually good to try this multi functional shot.”
Biba says signup for ECAP runs via August 15th. He says FSA workplaces are prepared since they’ve had round 90 days to organize whereas the rulemaking course of was underway.
Biba says eligible commodities can obtain 100% of the per-acre funds, and farmers with prevented plant acres final yr are additionally eligible for half of the speed. The expedited farmer help funds have been licensed by the American Reduction Act, 2025 simply earlier than Christmas.
The ECAP program pays a hard and fast price per acre based mostly on the commodity grown. The charges will be discovered on-line at Brownfield Ag Information.
Net:
The commodities beneath are eligible for these per-acre fee charges:
| Wheat – $30.69 | Eligible oilseeds: |
| Corn – $42.91 | Canola – $31.83 |
| Sorghum – $42.52 | Crambe – $19.08 |
| Barley – $21.67 | Flax – $20.97 |
| Oats – $77.66 | Mustard – $11.36 |
| Upland cotton & Further-long staple cotton – $84.74 | Rapeseed – $23.63 |
| Lengthy & medium grain rice – $76.94 | Safflower – $26.32 |
| Peanuts – $75.51 | Sesame – $16.83 |
| Soybeans – $29.76 | Sunflower – $27.23 |
| Dry peas – $16.02 | |
| Lentils – $19.30 | |
| Small Chickpeas – $31.45 | |
| Giant Chickpeas – $24.02 |
