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Farmers' Legal Action Group is a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services and support to family farmers and their communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.

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                    [post_content] => <p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia',serif;">FLAG’s Farmers’ Guide to Carbon Contracts is designed to help farmers understand carbon market contracts and make an informed decision about whether to agree to a carbon contract. In a carbon market contract, a farmer agrees to adopt certain farming practices that are expected to keep carbon in the ground or draw carbon from the air into the soil. Under the contract, farmers are paid to adopt these practices. The details for how the carbon is captured by farming practices, how farmers are paid, and other important requirements are set out in the carbon market contract. </span></p>
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<a href="http://www.flaginc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Farmers-Guide-to-Carbon-Markets-February-2025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Farmers' Guide to Carbon Markets - February 2025</a>
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                    [post_content] => FLAG is issuing a revised version of Farmers’ Guide to County Committee Elections in the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA). The revisions place additional emphasis on the need for election nominees to use the most current FSA nomination form. They also elaborate on the use of email to memorialize conversations and decisions made by FSA employees.

As explained in our December 10, 2024 post, the Guide explains the rules governing the election of FSA County Committee members. FSA County Committees exercise significant power over the delivery of FSA services at the county level. Therefore, the election of Committee members should be of great interest to all farmers and ranchers that participate in FSA programs.

Farmers, farm advocates, farm attorneys, and others are welcome to consult, download, print, or share the Guide for free.

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FLAG has published a new guide entitled Farmers' Guide to County Committee Elections in the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA). The Guide explains the rules governing the election of FSA County Committee members. FSA County Committees exercise significant power over the delivery of FSA services at the county level. Therefore, the election of Committee members should be of great interest to all farmers and ranchers that participate in FSA programs.

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                    [post_content] => <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Professional Development Webinar Series </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Helping Family Farmers Through Financial Distress and Disputes</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A free four-part series on Zoom
September 25-October 2, 2024</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It is often said that credit is the lifeblood of farming. In general, many farmers borrow money in the spring to plant, tend, and harvest their crops. Farmers plan to repay their creditors toward the end of the year when they have received payments for their products. But, serious price, production, weather, pest, and other difficulties often occur and ultimately become credit problems, resulting in disputes between farmers and their lenders. Farmers’ understanding of how to access credit, know their legal rights, and handle financial disputes, can be the difference between getting through a bad year and losing the farm.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For some farmers, such as those who are small, diversified, sustainable, organic, socially disadvantaged, or historically underserved, credit struggles and disputes can be especially difficult.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Farmers’ Legal Action Group (FLAG) is offering a free four-part professional development Zoom series for agriculture professionals to help give them the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to help farmers in financial distress or in disputes with lenders.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The fourth edition of FLAG’s <em>Farmers’ Guide to Minnesota Lending Law</em> was published on September 18, 2024 and is the basis for the upcoming professional development webinar series. That guide can be viewed or downloaded <a href="http://www.flaginc.org/2024/09/farmers-guide-to-minnesota-lending-law-4th-edition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">FLAG Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney Stephen Carpenter, and FLAG Senior Staff Attorney Lindsay Kuehn, will present information on the following topics in Zoom webinars:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Overview of Minnesota Agricultural Lending Law</strong>
September 25, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Unsecured Farm Credit; Operating Loans</strong>
September 27, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Real Estate; Leases; Farmer-Lender Mediation</strong>
September 30, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>New Farm Service Agency Farm Lending Rules; Discrimination in USDA Farm Lending Programs</strong>
October 2, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
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                    [post_content] => <p style="font-style: inherit;">The Fourth Edition of FLAG’s <em>Farmers’ Guide to Minnesota Lending Law</em> is out now. Farmers, farm advocates, farm attorneys, and others, please consult, download, print, or share the guide for free. If you have any legal questions about lending or credit as Minnesota farmers prepare for the 2024 harvest season and beyond, please do not hesitate to contact FLAG’s attorneys.</p>
<a href="http://www.flaginc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Farmers-Guide-to-MN-Lending-Law-4th-Edition-September-2024-9-25.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Farmers' Guide to MN Lending Law 4th Edition September 2024</a>
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                    [post_content] => <strong>Now available in Spanish</strong> <strong>- Farmers' Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) Third Edition </strong>

Thanks to our partner Rural Coalition, we now have a Spanish translation of FLAG’s current comprehensive guide to DFAP.

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                    [post_content] => On July 7, 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) was open. FLAG has created a brief Guide and a longer Guide to this program. This third edition of the brief guide highlights two extended deadlines: Deadline for farmers to apply for the program is now January 13, 2024; and the deadline to request USDA documents as part of their applications is November 3rd, 2023. This edition of the Brief Farmers’ Guide replaces earlier Brief Farmers’ Guides that FLAG previously had on our website.

A more comprehensive Farmers’ Guide, which looks at the details of DFAP, is also available on FLAG’s website.

<a href="http://www.flaginc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Brief-Farmers-Guide-to-USDA-Discrimination-Financial-Assistance-Program-3rd-Edition-9-29-23-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brief Farmers' Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program 3rd Edition 9-29-23</a>
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                    [post_content] => On July 7, 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP). The Program, which was created by Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act, makes $2.2 billion available for “discrimination financial assistance” to farmers who can show that they experienced discrimination in USDA Farm Loan Programs. FLAG released a Brief Guide to DFAP on that same date.

Today we are releasing the Third Edition of the Farmers’ Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program. The first edition was published on August 27, 2023. The Second Edition was published on September 8, 2023. This Third Edition replaces the earlier Editions on our website.

One reason for a Third Edition is that on September 22, 2023, USDA announced that it was changing two important deadlines.  First, USDA extended the Program Application deadline from October 31, 2023, to January 13, 2024. Second, USDA extended the deadline for farmers to ask for documents that USDA might have about the farmer from September 29, 2023, to November 3, 2023.  This Third Edition of the Guide is updated to include those deadline changes.

This Edition of the Guide also includes a discussion of how the application process works and how decisions on Applications are made.

<a href="http://www.flaginc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Farmers-Guide-to-USDA-Discrimination-Financial-Assistance-Program-DFAP-Third-Edition-Sept-28th-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Farmers' Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) Third Edition - Sept 28th 2023</a>
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                    [post_content] => <p class="xparagraph" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="xnormaltextrun">The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on September 22, 2023 that the deadline to apply for the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program </span>(DFAP) has been extended <span class="xnormaltextrun">to January 13, 2024, to give eligible farmers, ranchers and forest landowners more time to apply for assistance. The original deadline was October 31, 2023. </span><span class="xeop"> </span><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span style="color: black; background: white;">In addition to the application deadline change, </span>t<span style="color: black; background: white;">he deadline to request records from USDA’s Farm Service Agency</span> <span style="color: black; background: white;">for use in applications has been extended to Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. </span></span><span class="xeop"> </span></p>
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                    [post_content] => <strong>DEADLINES EXTENDED</strong>

DFAP application deadline: <strong><u>Jan. 13, 2024</u></strong>

USDA documents request deadline: <strong><u>Nov. 3, 2023</u></strong>

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<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #010000; letter-spacing: .75pt; background: white;">On July 7, 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) was open and FLAG created a brief Guide to this program. This brief Farmers’ Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance is a very short discussion of the Program. With thanks to our partners at the Rural Coalition, we now have a Spanish translation of this brief Guide. A more comprehensive Farmers’ Guide, that looks at the details of the program, is coming soon.</span></p>
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            [post_content] => <p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia',serif;">FLAG’s Farmers’ Guide to Carbon Contracts is designed to help farmers understand carbon market contracts and make an informed decision about whether to agree to a carbon contract. In a carbon market contract, a farmer agrees to adopt certain farming practices that are expected to keep carbon in the ground or draw carbon from the air into the soil. Under the contract, farmers are paid to adopt these practices. The details for how the carbon is captured by farming practices, how farmers are paid, and other important requirements are set out in the carbon market contract. </span></p>
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