HONOLULU, Hawaii\u2014The USDA Farm Service Agency invites all commercial farmers to attend an informational meeting to learn about how they can protect their financial investment in their farm through the Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program, commonly known as NAP. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 26, at 10am at the Kagman Agriculture Station.<\/p>\n
Farm Service Agency County executive director Tom Camacho said, \u201cTyphoon Dolphin serves as another important reminder of the power of nature to devastate a farmer\u2019s livelihood, but there are ways to reduce business risks. Steps include treating the farm like a business; maintaining production records; and signing up for risk management programs such as NAP.\u201d<\/p>\n
At this information meeting farmers will learn the basics of the NAP program, what is required and the upcoming deadlines.<\/p>\n
The 2014 Farm Bill authorized the waiver of basic NAP fees for historically underserved minorities, limited resource and beginning producers. The Farm Bill also provided a new optional Buy Up provision to NAP that can afford producers at a nominal fee with even greater coverage from losses due to natural disasters.<\/p>\n
During this meeting applications will not be taken for damage as a result of Typhoon Dolphin, but producers may schedule a follow-up site visit to inspect damage.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the FSA Guam County Office at 234-0896.<\/p>\n
Persons with disabilities who require accommodations to attend or participate in this meeting\/event\/function should contact the FSA Guam County Office at 234-0896 or Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 by May 22, 2015. (FSA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HONOLULU, Hawaii\u2014The USDA Farm Service Agency invites all commercial farmers to attend an informational meeting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,103,257,4566],"class_list":["post-202498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-3","tag-nap","tag-nmi","tag-typhoon-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}