Assistance program
Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program
$668,726 committed in FY2018–FY2019
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.090
- What it does
- The objective of the SURE program is to provide financial assistance for farm revenue losses due to natural disaster. Assistance is provided from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund (Trust Fund) established under Public Law 110-246. The Secretary of Agriculture (henceforth the Secretary) has the authority to use the Trust Fund to make crop disaster assistance payments to eligible producers on farms in disaster counties whose actual production is less than 50 percent of their normal production. A disaster county means a county included in the geographic area covered by a qualifying natural disaster declaration by the Secretary. SURE is the 2008 Farm Bill's successor to the prior Crop Disaster Programs. SURE is legislated through fiscal year 2011.
- Who benefits
- The SURE program will provide financial assistance to an eligible producer on a farm who has insurable or noninsurable commodity or agricultural commodity (except livestock) for which the producer on a farm is eligible to obtain a policy or plan of insurance. Benefits are also extended to the Socially Disadvantaged Farmer or Rancher who has been subject to racial or ethnic prejudice because of his or her identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities; a beginning farmer or rancher who has not operated a farm or ranch for more than 10 years and materially and substantially participates in the operation; and limited resource producer with direct or indirect gross farm sales not more than $100,000 in both of the previous two years, adjusted upwards for any general inflation since fiscal year 2004, and if the total household income is at or below the national poverty level for a family of four or less than 50 percent of county median household income in bother of the previous two years.
- Who applies
- An eligible applicant or eligible "producer on a farm", is an individual or entity who assumes the production and market risks associated with the agricultural production of crops or livestock. An individual or entity is a citizen of the United States (U.S.), a resident alien, or a partnership of citizens of the U.S.
- Authorized by
- The Trade Act of 1974
- The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
- The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (The Farm Bill)
- Program site
- http://www.fsa.gov ↗
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- Committed through this program
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