The Pandemic Cover Crop Program (PCCP), offered by USDA’s Risk Management Agency, reduces producers’ overall premium bills and helps them maintain their cover crop systems.
The new $5-per-acre assistance is the latest in a series of coronavirus relief efforts being offered for farmers.
Cultivating cover crops requires sustained, long-term investment, and the economic challenges of the pandemic made it financially challenging for many producers to maintain cover crop systems. PCCP helps ensure producers can continue this important conservation practice.
PCCP is part of USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative, a bundle of programs to bring financial assistance to farmers, ranchers and producers who felt the impact of COVID-19 market disruptions. Farmers have until June 15 to file a cover crop acreage report to the Farm Service Agency (FSA) in order to receive the assistance.
For more information and FAQs, please visit Pandemic Cover Crop Program (PCCP) | Farmers.gov or call your local FSA Office.
