NAP Noninsured Crop Assistance Program

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NAPNoninsured Crop Assistance Program

• Wes Harris
• Special Projects Coordinator
• Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development

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NAP

• Noninsured Crop Assistance Program
• Administered by FSA
• Noninsurable crops

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Provides immediate relief to producers
• Report within 15 days of loss
• Appraisal conducted
• Payments issued once threshold is reached

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• NAP covers 50 of producers expected production
• NAP equalizes 55 of the crops average market
  price for payment
• Benefits limited to 100,000 annually

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• NAP started in 1995
• Initially for widespread disaster
• Now based on individual crop losses and prevented
  planting
• Individually based on farmers ability to produce

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• honey
• turfgrass sod
• seed crops
• nursery

• forage
• grazing
• christmas trees
• aquaculture

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Administrative fee of 100 per crop per county
• Fees capped at 300 per county
• Fees not to exceed 900 for producers with
  multiple counties

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Applicants need to provide prior years
  production to FSA to establish an APH (actual
  production history) or approved yield for loss
  calculations and payments

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Must be acceptable records measurements,
  receipts, etc
• Presents major challenge for roadside and pick
  your own marketers

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Eligible only if individual has risk in producing
  the crop
• Must be workmanlike under accepted cultural
  practices
• Must comply with conservation plan

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Producers can file an application at any time
  until the application period closing date
• Once insured, producers must report prior year
  production to remain eligible for benefits

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Only one application closing date for the pay
  group
• Example grass pay group for forage would
  include annual warm and cool season grasses
• GA 11/1 for all grass forages

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NAP Application Closing Dates

• State separated into three areas
• Each area may have different application closing
  dates due to historical planting date ranges

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NAP Application Closing Dates

• Area II
• Appling Bleckley Burke
• Candler Dodge Emanuel
• Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins
• Johnson Laurens Montgomery
• Screven Telfair Toombs
• Treutlen Twiggs Washington
• Wheeler Wilkinson

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NAP Application Closing Dates

• Area III
• Atkinson Bacon Brantley
• Bryan Bulloch Camden
• Charlton Chatham Clinch
• Coffee Effingham Evans
• Glynn Liberty Long
• McIntosh Pierce Tattnall
• Ware Wayne

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Example NAP Application Closing Dates

• 1/31 Tomatoes
• 2/01 Carrots (s)
• 2/28 S. Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Sorghum
• 3/01 Brassicas, w. potatoes
• 4/01 Alfalfa, vegetables, melons, grass(gzw)
• 8/31 Onions
• 9/01 Nursery, strawberries, carrots (f)
• 9/30 Oats, wheat (II)

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Example NAP Application Closing Dates

• 10/01 Grass (gzc-II), mixed forage (II)
• 11/1 Grass (fg), rye, triticale, grass
  (gzc-III) mixed forages (III), wheat (III)
• aquaculture
• 11/20 Apples, blueberries, peaches, pecans
• 12/01 Honey

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• NAP is not an ad hoc disaster program
• NAP is an insurance policy

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Because NAP is an insurance policy records must
  be provided that are accurate and acceptable
• Pay for measurements and evaluations by FSA

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• Political Implications

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Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP)

• QUESTIONS
• wlharris_at_uga.edu
• www.fsa.usda.gov