10.092: Tree Assistance Program

10.092

Inactive

Farm Service Agency (FSA) [USDA]

Oct. 27, 2014

Aug. 25, 2013

The Tree Assistance Program (TAP) provides financial assistance to qualifying orchardists and nursery tree growers to replant or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes and vines affected by natural disasters and suffered mortality losses in excess of 15 percent, after adjustment for normal mortality occurring on or after January 1, 2008, and before October 1, 2011. TAP was authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill and is funded through the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund under Section 902 of the Trade Act of 1974.

D - Direct Payments with Unrestricted Use

An eligible applicant is an orchardist or a nursery tree grower who has planted trees for commercial purposes but lost the trees as a direct result of a natural disaster. The term tree' includes a tree, bush, and vine. An eligible orchardists is a person who produces annual crops from trees for commercial use. An eligible nursery tree grower is a person who produces nursery, ornamental fruit, nut or Christmas trees for commercial sale.

Beneficiary eligibility will be provided to an owner who has trees, bushes or vines lost by a natural disaster who suffer qualifying losses in excess of 15 percent (adjusted for normal mortality) from an eligible natural disaster for the individual stand; must have owned the eligible trees, bushes and vines when the natural disaster occurred; however, eligible growers are not required to own the land on which eligible trees, bushes and vines are planted; and must replace eligible trees, bushes and vines within 12 months from the date the application is approved.

10.082 - Tree Assistance Program