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New Farmers' Guide to Disaster Assistance Available 6-24-08
ST. PAUL, MINN. - A familiar resource has been thoroughly revised and updated
for farmers who are struggling in the face of natural disaster, and for farmers
who want to learn more about the disaster assistance programs included in the
2008 Farm Bill. Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) announces that the
sixth edition of its book,
Farmers' Guide to Disaster Assistance, is now available.
"This updated sixth edition of
Farmers' Guide to Disaster Assistance provides farmers current information
on important legal issues such as program eligibility, obligations of farmers
who participate in the programs, and appeal rights," says Jill Krueger, a FLAG
staff attorney and one of the book's authors. "We were able to include an
overview of provisions from the 2008 Farm Bill in the introduction, and to add
key points in the discussion of each affected program. But we won't know all of
the details until USDA publishes regulations for the programs."
Farmers' Guide to Disaster Assistance includes an easy-to-use chart that
provides an overview of federal disaster assistance for farmers. Individual
chapters provide detailed descriptions of programs offered by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (including housing assistance and disaster
unemployment), federal crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance
Program (NAP), the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP), disaster assistance
programs for livestock producers, Emergency Loans from the Farm Service Agency,
the Disaster Set-Aside program for existing loans from Farm Service Agency,
Small Business Administration disaster loans (including both home and business
loans), as well as brief discussions of bankruptcy and federal income tax issues
as they relate to losses caused by natural disaster. A new appendix addresses
considerations unique to organic farmers.
The book uses clear language and detailed citations to applicable laws to help
farmers and their advisors understand and obtain federal disaster assistance.
Updated information will be posted on the
FLAG website.
The book can be downloaded by chapter at no charge from
FLAG's website. A bound
copy of the book is available without cost to financially distressed Minnesota
farmers by calling 1-877-860-4349. For other persons, the charge is $40 per
book, and orders can be placed by calling FLAG's office at 651-223-5400 or by
visiting the FLAG website at
www.flaginc.org. The book is also available on CD for $10. FLAG is a
nonprofit law center in St. Paul, Minnesota, dedicated to providing legal
services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep
family farmers on the land.
Comment:
I want to thank all of the organic and transitional farmers out there. I know it's been rough but keep up the good work. We all need you so much.