The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced loan interest rates for August 2025, which are effective Aug. 1, 2025. USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) loans provide important access to capital to help agricultural producers start or expand their farming operation, purchase equipment and storage structures or meet cash flow needs.      
     

Interest rates for Operating and Ownership loans for August 2025 are as follows:       

Farm Operating Loans (Direct): 5.000%  

Farm Ownership Loans (Direct): 6.000%  

Farm Ownership Loans (Direct, Joint Financing): 4.000%  

Farm Ownership Loans (Down Payment): 2.000%

Emergency Loan (Amount of Actual Loss): 3.750%

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Impacted Areas: Various - Montana, Idaho, Oregon
Application Deadline: 3/16/2026
Triggering Disaster: Drought

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This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced additional U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) assistance to help producers in the Commonwealth of Virginia recover from Hurricane Helene. Secretary Rollins signed a block grant agreement with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) that provides recovery assistance for Virginian farmers.

In this agreement, VDACS is receiving $60.9 million in funding to administer a program covering infrastructure, timber, and plasticulture losses in addition to market losses and future economic losses.

Physical loss loans through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, fixtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees, and harvested or stored crops and hay.

Impacted Area: Texas

Triggering Disaster: Severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding that occurred on July 2, 2025, through July 7, 2025.

Application Deadline: March 25, 2026

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RALEIGH, N.C., July 22, 2025 – Agricultural operations in North Carolina have been significantly impacted by Tropical Storm Chantal and related weather events. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers recover from these adverse weather events.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today in Florida met with agricultural leaders and producers and announced additional U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) assistance to help producers recover from Hurricanes Idalia, Debby, Helene and Milton.

In this agreement, FDACS is receiving $675.9M in funding to administer a program that will cover infrastructure, citrus, and timber losses in addition to direct market losses.

Visit the 2023/2024 Supplemental Disaster Assistance public landing page to track the status of USDA disaster assistance. The page is updated regularly and accessible through fsa.usda.gov.

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Agricultural operations in Virginia have been significantly impacted by Tropical Storm Chantal and related weather events. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers recover from these adverse weather events.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Michigan is accepting applications for the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) and Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) to address damages from tornados and high winds that occurred on March 30, 2025.

ECP provides cost-share and technical assistance to producers to restore farmland to pre-disaster conditions and EFRP provides financial cost-share and technical assistance to restore nonindustrial private forestland (NIPF) damaged by a qualifying natural disaster.

ECP and EFRP signup began on May 21, 2025, and ends on November 21, 2025.

Impacted Area: Wyoming

Triggering Disaster: Drought (Fast Track)

Application Deadline: March 9, 2026

Three South Dakota Counties Also Eligible for Assistance

This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced 2025-crop loan rates for four types of peanuts. The rates take effect Aug.1, 2025, the beginning of the peanut crop year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that agricultural producers and private landowners can now enroll in the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (Grassland CRP). Grassland CRP, offered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), is a voluntary working lands conservation program that enables participants to conserve grasslands while also continuing most grazing and haying practices.

The sign-up runs from today, July 14, to Aug. 8, 2025.

Agricultural operations in Montana have been significantly impacted by recent severe weather, tornadoes and flooding. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers recover from these adverse weather events. Impacted producers should contact their local USDA Service Center to report losses and learn more about program options available to assist in their recovery from crop, land, infrastructure, and livestock losses and damages.

Impacted Area: Nebraska

Triggering Disaster: Drought (Fast Track)

Application Deadline: 03/09/2026

This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

USDA Designates Thirteen Montana Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas for Drought Four contiguous Counties in Idaho are eligible for assistance

Impacted Area: Montana

‍Triggering Disaster: Drought

‍Application Deadline: March 9, 2026

‍Contiguous Counties Also Eligible in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that agricultural producers and private landowners can now enroll in the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (Grassland CRP). Grassland CRP, offered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), is a voluntary working lands conservation program that enables participants to conserve grasslands while also continuing most grazing and haying practices.

The sign-up runs from today, July 14, to Aug. 8, 2025.

Local Farm Service Agency offices are now accepting nominations for county committee members and encourages all farmers, ranchers, and FSA program participants to take part in their local County Committee election nomination process.

Customers can identify which LAA they or their farming or ranching operation is in by using our GIS locator tool available at fsa.usda.gov/elections.

The deadline to nominate is August 1, 2025.

Impacted Area: Indiana

Triggering Disaster: Tornado

Application Deadline: March 9, 2026

Physical loss loans through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses.

Impacted Area: Texas

Triggering Disaster: Severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding

Application Deadline: March 10, 2026

This Presidential disaster declaration allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

Impacted Area: Texas

Triggering Disaster: Severe storms and flooding

Application Deadline: January 21, 2026

This Presidential disaster declaration allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

Impacted Area: North Dakota

Triggering Disaster: Wildfire and High Winds

Application Deadline: 3/9/2026

Physical loss loans through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses.

Impacted Area: Texas

Triggering Disaster: Severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding

Application Deadline: March 6, 2026

This Presidential disaster declaration allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced today that agricultural producers who suffered eligible crop losses due to natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 can now apply for $16 billion in assistance through the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP).

To expedite the implementation of SDRP, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is delivering assistance in two stages. This first stage is open to producers with eligible crop losses that received assistance under crop insurance or the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program during 2023 and 2024. Stage One sign up will start in person at FSA county offices on July 10 and prefilled applications are being mailed to producers today, July 9. SDRP Stage Two signups for eligible shallow or uncovered losses will begin in early fall.

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Program Helps Offset Transporting Costs for Farmers and Livestock Producers Outside the Contiguous U.S.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Hawaii opened enrollment today for the Reimbursement Transportation Cost Payment Program (RTCP) for fiscal year 2025. The enrollment period begins July 7 and will run through Sept. 30. The deadline for producers to provide supporting documentation is Nov. 3, 2025.

RTCP helps U.S. farmers and ranchers offset a portion of the cost of transporting agricultural products over long distances.

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Impacted Area: Colorado

‍Triggering Disaster: Drought that started April 15, 2025

‍Application Deadline: February 9, 2026

This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

Impacted Area: Texas

‍Triggering Disaster: High winds, severe storms, and tornadoes that occurred on June 8, 2025.

‍Application Deadline: March 9, 2026

Physical loss loans through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses.

Agricultural operations in Minnesota have been significantly impacted by recent severe weather including tornadoes, derecho winds, hail, lightning, and flooding. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers recover from these adverse weather events. Impacted producers should contact their local USDA Service Center to report losses and learn more about program options available to assist in their recovery from crop, land, infrastructure, and livestock losses and damages.

Impacted Area: Oklahoma and Texas

Triggering Disaster: High winds, severe storms and tornadoes that occurred on June 8, 2025

Application Deadline: March 9, 2025

Physical loss loans through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses.

Impacted Area: Michigan

Multiple Triggering Disasters (5): Drought, Rain and Freeze events occurring between April - December 2024

Application Deadline: November 28, 2025
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Impacted Area: Michigan

Triggering Disaster: Drought (fast track designation) that occurred beginning April 15, 2025

Application Deadline: February 9, 2026

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These Secretarial natural disaster designations allow the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

Impacted Area: Florida

Triggering Disaster: Drought

Application Deadline: February 2, 2026

This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.

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Impacted Area: Montana

Triggering Disaster: Drought

Application Deadline: February 17, 2026

This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.