Agricultural and Food Policy
 Agri Outlook Radio
Number 191
Policy: Part 7 of 8 - Basic Provisions of the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) (1:15 minutes)
Audio/Video Script:
Robert Coats, Ph.D.
Extension Economist and Professor
University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture
One of the 2008 Farm Bill’s Five New Supplemental Agricultural Disaster
Assistance Programs is the Tree Assistance Program (TAP)
Basic provisions of the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) are as follows:
The Tree Assistance Program is reauthorized, subject to funds being
appropriated, to provide assistance to orchardists and eligible nursery tree
growers who produce nursery, ornamental, fruit, nut, or Christmas trees for
commercial sale that lost trees because of a natural disaster as determined by
USDA's Secretary of Agriculture.
The Tree Assistance Program will be provided to producers who lost trees in
excess of 15 percent mortality (adjusted for normal mortality). Producers will
be reimbursed for 70 percent of the cost of planting trees and 50 percent of
the cost of pruning, removal, and other costs incurred for salvaging trees.
This has been Robert Coats Extension Economist University of Arkansas
Division of Agriculture.
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