Secretary Sonny Perdue announced this week that all FSA offices nationwide will reopen beginning on Thursday, Jan. 24.  Additionally, the deadline to apply for the Market Facilitation Program has been extended to Feb. 14.

Agricultural producers who have business with the agency can contact their FSA service center to make an appointment.

FSA staff will be able to work on the following transactions:

• Market Facilitation Program.
• Marketing Assistance Loans
• Release of collateral warehouse receipts
• Direct and Guaranteed Farm Operating Loans, and Emergency Loans
• Service existing Conservation Reserve Program contracts
• Sugar Price Support Loans
• Dairy Margin Protection Program
• Agricultural Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage
• Livestock Forage Disaster
• Emergency Assistance Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish Program
• Livestock Indemnity Program
• Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program
• Tree Assistance Program
• Remaining Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program payments for applications already processed

Transactions that will not be available include, but are not limited to:

• New Conservation Reserve Program contracts
• New Direct and Guaranteed Farm Ownership Loans
• Farm Storage Facility Loan Program
• New or in-process Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program applications
• Emergency Conservation Program.
• Emergency Forest Rehabilitation Program
• Biomass Crop Assistance Program
• Grassroots Source Water Protection Program