The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service
Agency (FSA) in Shawano-Menominee County announced payments are now available to eligible producers
who lost stored commodities due to natural disaster in 2018 or 2019. The On-Farm Storage Loss Program
(OFSLP) was authorized by the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019.
Administered by FSA, OFSLP provides payments to eligible producers in impacted counties who suffered
uncompensated losses of harvested commodities including grains, oilseeds, and hay stored in on-farm
structures. For producers to receive payment, the losses must be directly related to an eligible disaster event
such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, typhoons, volcanic activity, snowstorms, and wildfires that occurred
during 2018 and/or 2019.
“There are producers throughout the country who had their on-farm storage structures damaged or destroyed by
natural disasters during 2018 and 2019,” said Shawano-Menominee County FSA Executive Director Emily
Schildgen. “This disaster recovery program pays eligible producers who lost their on-farm stored commodities.
We encourage producers who suffered a loss to contact our office for program information and application.”
To be eligible for OFSLP, the farm storage structure must be located on the farm, not used for commercial
storage, and would have, under normal circumstances, maintained the quality of the commodity. Commodities
stored in warehouses are not eligible for OFSLP. Programs payments are made for the loss of the stored
commodity and not for the loss of the structure itself. Additionally, this program is only available in certain
counties, including Shawano and Menominee Counties.
Commodities eligible for OFSL include: barley, canola, chickpeas (large and small), corn, cotton, crambe, dry
peas, flaxseed, grain sorghum, hay (alfalfa and all-hay), lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, rapeseed, rice,
safflower seed, sesame seed, soybeans, sunflower seed and wheat.
FSA uses a national payment rate per commodity which is based on market or harvest prices. Payments will be
calculated using a 75 percent factored FSA payment rate multiplied by the quantity lost while stored.
OFSLP has a payment limitation of $125,000 per entity. Adjusted Gross Income does not apply to OFSLP and
an acreage report is not required for this program.
