USDA Specialty Crop Assistance Applications Due This Week

Producers looking to apply for USDA's Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers, time is running short. The application sign-up deadline is Friday, August 7th. Farm Production and Conservation Under Secretary Richard Fordyce said payments will be provided based on reported 2025 planted acres.

“They either use a login.gov account or they go to the local FSA county office," Fordyce said. "What they'll find is really an application that's pre-populated. If they've done an acreage report, we will have an application for them. All it requires is a signature from the producer and then we can start to initiate the payment.”