Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Sign Up Ends July 29, 2011

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Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Sign Up Ends July 29, 2011

07/25/2011 07:06 PM EDT

July 5, 2011

Release 0033.11
Contact: Andrew Ortiz (505) 761-4900

Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Sign Up Ends July 29, 2011

ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Salomon Ramirez, State Executive Director for the New Mexico USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), today reminds producers that they have until Friday, July 29, 2011, to apply for assistance for 2009 crop losses under the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) Program. The program provides crop disaster assistance payments to eligible producers on farms that have incurred crop production or quality losses.

"Natural disasters can turn what would be a profitable crop year into a year of hardship and financial loss," said Ramirez. "The SURE program is part of the ‘safety net’ that provides assistance to farmers and ranchers when disaster strikes," he said.

The SURE program takes into consideration losses on all crops grown by a producer nationwide. To be eligible, producers must have suffered at least a 10 percent production loss on a crop of economic significance and obtained a policy or plan of insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act or the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP), for all economically significant crops. A producer must have a farming interest physically located in a county that was declared a primary disaster county or contiguous county by the Secretary of Agriculture under a Secretarial Disaster Designation or have actual production on the farm that was less than 50 percent of the normal production on the farm due to a natural disaster.
Producers considered socially disadvantaged, beginning farmer or rancher or a limited resource producer may be eligible for SURE without a policy or plan of insurance or NAP coverage.

Producers in qualifying counties are encouraged to contact their local FSA County Office to discuss program provisions. The majority of NM counties qualify for the 2009 SURE program.

For information on the 2009 SURE program eligibility requirements visit your local FSA office or http://www.fsa.usda.gov/sure.

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