Pandemic Cover Crop Program (PCCP)

Overview

This functionality does not apply to the selected Reinsurance Year; it only applies to 2022 and 2021. To see details about this program, select either 2022 or 2021 from the Reinsurance Year dropdown.

The Pandemic Cover Crop Program (PCCP) is offered nationally by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), helps farmers maintain their cover crop systems, despite the financial challenges posed by the pandemic. The PCCP is part of USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative, a bundle of programs to bring financial assistance to farmers, ranchers, and producers who felt the impact of COVID – 19 market disruptions. The PCCP provides premium support to producers who insured their spring crop with most insurance policies and planted a qualifying cover crop during the 2021 and 2022 crop years. The premium support is $5 per acre (acres X subsidy $5 x insured share) but no more than the full premium owed.

Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa have existing programs for producers to receive a premium benefit for planting cover crops. In these states, participating producers will receive an additional benefit. For an updated listing of what Cover Crops qualify, see FSA Handbook 2-CP.

All cover crops reportable to FSA are eligible and include cereals and other grasses, legumes, brassicas, and other non-legume broadleaves, and mixtures of two or more cover crop species planted at the same time.

 

 

This functionality does not apply to the selected Reinsurance Year.