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Farm Service Agency; ... Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Food and Nutrition Service: 5: III: 300–399: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: 6: IV: 400–499: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation: V: 500–599: Agricultural Research Service: VI: 600–699: Natural Resources Conservation Service: 7: VII: 700–799: Farm Service Agency: VIII: 800–899: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards ...
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation was a program created to carry out the government initiative to provide insurance for farmers' produce, which means that farmers would receive compensation for crops, even if they were not sustained in that year. [3] On September 26, 1980, the program was expanded through Public Law 96-365. [4]
The origins of the FSA start with several earlier agencies starting in the 1930s, with several programs and agencies developed during the Great Depression.The Resettlement Administration of 1935 was an early attempt to relocate entire farming communities to more profitable locations, but this was ultimately abandoned as it proved too controversial, expensive, and showed no signs of success. [3]
The Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961 (P.L. 87-128) authorized a major expansion of USDA lending activities, which at the time were administered by Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), but now through the Farm Service Agency. The legislation was originally enacted as the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961.
The most recent of these Farm Bills, the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill), authorizes policies in the areas of commodity programs and crop insurance, conservation on agricultural lands, agricultural trade (including foreign food assistance), nutrition (primarily domestic food assistance), farm credit, rural economic ...
With the amendments to the Federal Crop Insurance Act made by the Federal Crop Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-354, Title I) and the Agriculture Risk Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-224), USDA is authorized to offer basically free catastrophic (CAT) coverage to producers who grow an insurable crop. For a premium, farmers can buy ...
Some examples of the other programs include farm loans, federal crop insurance, the Noninsured Assistance Program (NAP), the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), and conservation cost sharing, and the "food stamps" program of SNAP, which is included in each farm spending bill because it acts as a subsidy, keeping crop prices higher by increasing ...