Agricultural and Food Policy
 Agri Outlook Radio
Number 194
Policy: Part 4 of 8 - Basic Provisions of the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) Program (2:36 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 Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE)
Program.
Basic Provisions of the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE)
Program are as follows:
The Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) Program will be available
to eligible producers on:
- Farms in disaster counties, including contiguous counties
that have USDA’s Secretarial declaration for crop production losses and/or crop quality losses during the
crop year.
- Any farm in which, during the calendar year, the total loss
of production of the farm because of weather is greater than 50 percent of the normal production of the
farm.
In general, “farm” means the sum of all crop acreage in all counties that is
planted or intended to be planted for harvest by the eligible producer.
At a minimum, to be eligible for the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments
(SURE) Program, the producer must have purchased or be enrolled in the
following, for each:
- Insurable crop on the farm, a policy or plan of insurance
under the Federal Crop Insurance Act
- Non insurable commodity on the farm, filed the required
paperwork and paid the assistance fee by the applicable State deadline, for the noninsured crop
assistance program.
For 2008, producers who do not meet this requirement may have this provision
waived if the producers pay a fee in an amount applicable to the noninsured crop
disaster assistance program fee or catastrophic risk protection plan fee by no
later than September 16, 2008.
Payments will be issued to an eligible producer in an amount equal to 60
percent of the difference between the disaster assistance program guarantee and total farm
revenue.
This has been Robert Coats Extension Economist University of Arkansas
Division of Agriculture.
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