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Important Farm Bill Dates

 
Crop Insurance and NAP "Buy-in-fee" for 2008 Crops (Producers must "buy-in": to assure disaster Assistance coverage)

 
Sign-up Deadline: September 16, 2008

 

 

 
Sign-up Deadline: September 30, 2008

 

 
2009-12 NAP Service Fees Increased
  • $100 to $250 per crop
  • $300 to $750 per county
  • $900 to $1,875 per producer for all counties

 
Sign-up Deadline: Varies by crop and region

 

 
Tools

 
Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE) Estimated Payment Calculator

 
The calculator and instructions linked below are for informational purposes only. This calculator in no way binds FSA to potential payments under SURE and should not be relied on to make management decisions. This is a tool that producers and others may use in familiarizing themselves with SURE calculations and allows them to run various scenarios based on basic levels of insurance coverage versus buy up levels of insurance coverage. It is important to note that this calculator only addresses yield based crops and does not address value loss crops or those plans of insurance that are revenue based, including but not limited to, AGR or AGR Lite. It does not include calculations for situations such as prevented planting, first crop-second crop, and several other scenarios.

 
The calculator does not test for production loss.

 
Download instructions for using the calculator (PDF 86KB)

 
Download SURE estimated payment calculator (XLS 945KB)

 

 
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Date Last Modified 08/28/2008

 

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