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USDA Designates 4 New Jersey Counties as Natural Disaster Areas

Gabi Grunstein – Gabor.Grunstein@usda.gov – April 21, 2025

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This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producersrecovering from natural disasters through emergency loans (https://www.fsa.usda.gov/resources/programs/emergency-farm-loans?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery). Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a […]

USDA Launches Assistance Network to Support Financially Distressed Farmers and Ranchers

Contact: FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov

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Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Sept. 21, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing the launch of the Distressed Borrowers Assistance Network, an initiative designed to provide personalized support to financially distressed farmers and ranchers across the nation. Through a series of Cooperative Agreements, this national network will connect distressed borrowers with individualized assistance […]

Farm Service Agency Is Accepting Emergency Conservation Program and Emergency Forest Restoration Applications from New Jersey Producers

Gabor.Grunstein@usda.gov

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All counties eligible for disaster recovery assistance Hamilton Square, New Jersey, July 26, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is acceptingapplications for the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) and the Emergency Forest RestorationProgram (EFRP) from New Jersey agricultural producers and owners of nonindustrial private forestlandto address damage from recent severe storms that occurred Jan. […]

Submit Loan Requests for Financing Early

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The Farm Loan team in the Vineland Service Center is already working on operating loans for spring 2024so it is important that potential borrowers submit their requests early so they can be timely processed. The farm loan team can help determine which loan programs are best for applicants. FSA offers a wide range of low-interest […]