PROGRAM TITLE COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY RESEARCH PROGRAM NATURE AND The U. S. Department of Agriculture, through the Cooperative Research Program, administers grants-in-aid to the states for agricultural and forestry research. Research is directed toward problems of greatest importance to the state and nation as determined by the State Agricultural Experiment Station director and his staff. These include conservation, development, and use of natural resources; protection of man, plants, and animals; efficient production and quality improvement; product development and processing; efficient marketing; improvement of human nutrition; and development of human and community resources. Public and private agencies and individuals often suggest problems for research. The scientists at the experiment stations have developed a wealth of information that can be used by rural people as individuals and communities to make the best use of their resources. Attention has been given to needed social and economic adjustments and to human resource development, including studies of occupational aspirations, problems of their fulfillment, and human mobility. WHO CAN Most of the Federal funds under this program are distributed to the states on a formula basis. Matching is required on funds above the $90,000 level per state. The state designates the state research institution that is to receive the Federal money. In nearly all instances this is the State Agricultural Experiment Station attached to the land grant college. Some research funds are available to the designated research institutions, outside the formula distribution, for financing of especially needed research proposals. About one-fourth of the appropriation is available for regional research by the designated state institutions. FOR INFORMATION Cooperative State Research Service or: State Agricultural Experiment Station Washington, D. C. 20250 PRINTED The Information Offices of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations have publications available on a wide range of the technical, economic, and social problems of rural people. AUTHORIZING P.L. 84-352; 69 STAT 671; 7 USC 361a-361i P.L. 89-4; 79 STAT 17; P.L. 89-106; 79 STAT 431. ADMINISTERING PROGRAM TITLE NATURE AND WHO CAN COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE MOGRAM. The Cooperative Extension Service provides educational programs economic, and human resources, (3) the home economics education PURPOSE PROGRA These services are available to anyone. HO or: Local Cooperative Extension FOR CONTACT Washington, D. C. 20250 state land grant college PRINTED Publications of the Service may be obtained from: State Director, Cooperative Extension Service, state land grant college or County Extension offices or Publications Distribution Section, Federal Extension Service, AUTHORIZING ADMINISTER! Smith-Lever Act as amended; P.L. 83-83; 67 STAT 83; 7 USC 341-343, U. S. Department of Agriculture 154 PROGRAM TITLE NATURE AND CROPLAND ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM This program helps farmers divert cropland to conservation uses for periods of five to ten years. Participants receive adjustment payments related to the value of crops normally produced on the land, and cost-share payments for needed conservation measures. Participants who permit free public access to CAP land for fishing, hunting, hiking, and trapping may get an additional per-acre payment. The program also shares the cost with local, state, and other government agencies for establishing conservation practices on nonfarm cropland to preserve open spaces and natural beauty, develop wildlife and recreation, and prevent air and water pollution. The Greenspan provisions of this program offer: (1) financial assistance to city, town, county, or state governments, or to Federal agencies in acquiring cropland for preserving open spaces and natural beauty, for developing wildlife or recreational facilities, or for preventing air or water pollution, and (2) cost-share aid in establishing land conservation practices that will establish, protect, and conserve open spaces, natural beauty, wildlife, or recreational resources. WHO CAN Generally, the owners of operating farms that produce cotton, feed grain, peanuts, rice, tobacco, wheat, or tame hay, and have owned the land for the past three years are eligible to participate. FOR INFORMATION PRINTED INFORMATION AVAILABLE Agricultural Stabilization and or: Local Agricultural Stabilization and U. S. Department of Agriculture Questions and Answers About the Cropland Adjustment Program, USDA We Call It Greenspan ADMINISTERING PROGRAM TITLE NATURE AND WHO CAN FOR INFORMATION CONTACT ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE This program provides directly, and through Land Grant Colleges and Universities and other cooperating agencies, a wide variety of research reports on rural affairs, such as: research and analysis of agricultural production and adjustment; marketing of food and fiber as it relates to the producer, the distributor, and the consumer; studies concerning land and water resources; economic and statistical research related to the adjustment problems of rural people and the development of rural areas, including migration, taxation, local government, and poverty characteristics of rural people and communities. It provides both national reports and studies for regions, states, counties, and other local areas; it deals with problems of various types of rural people (farmers, ranchers, farm workers, and rural non farm residents) and of communities of less than 2,500 people. ROGRAM NATURE PURPOSE ROGRA All rural people, communities, and urban institutions that serve rural people directly are eligible to use the service. Economic Research Service U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington, D. C. 20250 PRINTED INFORMATION AVAILABLE Request ERS publication lists through: Office of Information U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington, D. C. 20250 AUTHORIZING ADMINISTERING Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1953; 67 STAT 633; 5 USC 133z to U. S. Department of Agriculture 156 This program provides emergency loans to farmers or ranchers in designated areas where natural disasters such as floods and droughts have brought about a temporary need for credit not available from other sources. The interest rate is 3 percent. Loans are scheduled for repayment within the shortest period of time consistent with the borrower's ability to repay. Loan funds may be used to: 1. Purchase feed, fuel, seed, fertilizer, and farm and home supplies Replace livestock lost in the disaster Replace or repair farm and home equipment 2. NATURE AND 3. 4. Replace or repair disaster-damaged farm buildings, fences, drainage, or irrigation systems 5. 6. 7. 8. Level land and remove debris resulting from the disaster Pay for water necessary for farm operation Make minor repairs to, or improvements in, farm water 9. Pay labor, machinery rental, and other essential expenses. Loans may not be made to refinance existing debts, pay cash rent, or enable borrowers to expand their normal operations. AUTHORIZING Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961; P.L. 87-128; 75 STAT 294; 7 USC 1013a, 1921, et seq. (Supp. IV). ADMINISTERING |