10.461: Pandemic Cover Crop Program
Alternate Name: PCCP
Overview
Program Number
10.461
Status
Inactive
Last Modified
July 12, 2022
Date Posted
July 12, 2022
Objective
Agricultural producers who have coverage under most crop insurance policies are eligible for a premium benefit from USDA if they planted cover crops during this crop year. The Pandemic Cover Crop Program, offered by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), reduces producers’ overall premium bills and helps them maintain their cover crop systems.
Cultivating cover crops requires a sustained, long-term investment, and the economic challenges of the pandemic make it financially challenging for many producers to maintain cover crop systems. PCCP helps ensure producers can continue this important conservation practice
Applicant Eligibility
Any farmer who plants a cover crop and buys crop insurance for a cash crop on the same land.
Beneficiary Eligibility
Not Applicable
Additional Information
Grant Awards
Pandemic Cover Crop Program direct grants
Grant Opportunities