Emergency Grain Storage Facility Assistance Program

The Emergency Grain Storage Facility Assistance Program (EGSFP) will provide assistance to producers affected by: tornadoes that passed through Kentucky in December 2021; derechos, floods, hurricanes, and winter storms that swept through Illinois, I

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) will provide $80 million in financial assistance to help producers affected by the December 2021 tornadoes that passed through Kentucky, as well as destroyed a large commercial grain elevator, limiting a producer's marketing and storage options. Grain producers in Minnesota, South Dakota and other states affected by derechos, hurricanes, tornados, and other weather events that occurred between December 1, 2021, and August 1, 2022, will also be eligible for EGSFP assistance. The Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs may determine additional affected counties eligible for EGSFP assistance during the application period.

Applicants must be a citizen of the United States; resident alien; partnership of citizens of the United States; corporation, limited liability company, or other organizational structure organized under State law; Indian Tribe or Tribal organization. A producer must be in compliance with highly erodible land conservation and wetland conservation provisions, commonly referred to as the conservation compliance provisions.

This assistance from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) is designed to help producers affected by the December 2021 tornadoes that passed through 11 counties in Kentucky, as well as producers in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Tennessee affected by eligible disaster events in 2022.

The assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA to eligible producers. Payments will be made by July or August 2023.

The sign up period for this program has ended.

1-30 Days

Applicants may request reconsideration of a decision by the decision authority or appeal such decisions to a higher authority including the county and State FSA committees and the National Appeals Division. Appeal regulations in 7 CFR parts 11 and 780 apply. EGSFP eligibility and other matters of general applicability that are not in response to, or result from, an individual set of facts in an individual participant's application for payment are not matters that can be appealed.