Producer Compliance Responsibilities for NAP Coverage on Mechanically Harvested Forage

The Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) provides financial assistance to producers of non-insurable crops, including mechanically harvested forage with NAP coverage, to protect against natural disasters that occur during the coverage, resulting in loss of production, loss of value, or prevented planting of an eligible crop.

If you have NAP coverage on mechanically harvested forage, you must:

• Maintain separate production records for each unit, crop, practice, crop type, and intended use.
• Submit production records to FSA by the designated production reporting date for the crop.
• Notify your FSA administrative county office before grazing, abandoning, or destroying forage acreage reported, on FSA form FSA-578, as intended to be mechanically harvested; and request an appraisal.
• Notify your FSA administrative county office of a loss and timely file CCC-576, Notice of Loss and Application for Payment, Part B, the earlier of:
  • 15 calendar days after the disaster occurs, or damage first becomes apparent.
  • 15 calendar days after the crop’s normal harvest date.
• If you change your intended use or experience a loss during the coverage period, you must:
  • Establish and maintain representative sample areas when an appraisal of the acreage is required.
  • Inform your FSA administrative county office of the location of representative sample areas within 15 days of placing the panels.
  • Request an appraisal of the representative sample areas at the end of harvest period but before first freeze.

For more information on NAP and NAP compliance requirements you must follow to retain NAP coverage, contact your local USDA service center. 

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