{"id":363,"date":"2019-01-11T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/?p=363"},"modified":"2019-01-11T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:30:10","slug":"deadline-for-mfp-will-be-extended-due-to-closure-of-fsa-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/2019\/01\/deadline-for-mfp-will-be-extended-due-to-closure-of-fsa-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline for MFP will be extended due to closure of FSA offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original deadline to sign up for the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) was January 15, 2019; however, the deadline will be extended.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, USDA Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, announced the deadline to submit applications for the MFP will be extended for a period of time equal to the number of business days the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices were closed, once the shutdown ends.<\/p>\n<p>FSA office were closed on December 28, 2018 and are still closed as of this blog post (January 11, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>The MFP is designed to provide direct payments to eligible producers whose crops took a loss as a result of retaliatory tariffs on soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy, hogs, shelled almonds and fresh sweet cherries.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about the program,\u00a0review our <a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/2018\/10\/market-facilitation-program-what-is-available-to-cover-my-marketing-losses-from-trade-tariffs\/\">initial blog post about MFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find more information about how to apply for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmers.gov\/manage\/mfp\">Market Facilitation Program<\/a>\u00a0from Farmers.gov.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original deadline to sign up for the Market Facilitation Program was January 15, 2019; however, the deadline will be extended for the number of business days USDA FSA offices were closed, once the government shutdown ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,15,28,41,19,22,43,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton","category-dairy","category-fruit","category-international-trade","category-livestock","category-marketing","category-policy","category-pork","category-row-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}