Overview

The Emergency Grain Storage Facility Assistance Program (EGSFP) 

provides financial assistance to producers affected in Kentucky, 

Minnesota, South Dakota, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, and 

Tennessee to support grain storage capacity and drying and handling 

needs for the orderly marketing of commodities following the 

destruction of large commercial grain elevators as a result of extreme 

weather (tornadoes, derechos, etc.).

This cost-share assistance support efforts to pay grain producers for 

losses due to limited marketing and storage opportunities because of 

destructions caused by eligible disaster events.

What Is Eligible?

Eligible Losses

EGSFP helps producers to market and build new or used, permanent 

or temporary on-farm grain storage capacity, restore existing storage 

capacity, and acquire drying and handling equipment for losses due 

to eligible disaster events.

Eligible disaster events include:

• Derechos;

• Floods;

• Hurricanes;

• Tornadoes;

• Winter storms.

Eligible Facilities, Equipment and 

Upgrades

The following types of new/used, 

permanent or temporary on-farm grain 

storage structures are eligible and must 

have a useful life of at least 3 years:

• conventional-type cribs or bins 

designed and engineered for grain 

storage;

• open buildings with two end walls;

• converted storage structures;

• asphalt, concrete or gravel floors with 

grain piles and tarp covering;

• ag baggers (including bags).

On-farm grain storage structures may 

account for aeration-drainage, and may 

require loading or unloading augers, drying 

and handling equipment.

Payment Limitations

A person or legal entity, other than a joint 

venture or general partnership, cannot 

receive, directly or indirectly, more than 

$125,000 in EGSFP payments.

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Payment Calculation

The EGSFP payment will be calculated as follows:

Producers will self-certify to the cost of the onfarm grain storage capacity or drying and handling 

equipment. The self-certified cost will be multiplied 

by the producer’s share of the grain crop that will be 

stored in the built or purchased storage structure. 

This is the EGSFP payment, which will be multiplied 

by the cost share factor of 75% or (see section of this 

fact sheet on eligibility for the 90% cost-share rate for 

underserved producers). FSA will determine if the selfcertified cost for the on-farm grain storage capacity or 

drying and handling equipment is reasonable based 

on general construction, labor, and supply rates for the 

respective areas.

Payment Disbursement

Due to the high volume of program applications 

received, FSA has increased the initial funding amount 

for EGSFP from $20 million to $80 million in cost-share 

assistance.

Approved EGSFP applicants who meet the requirements 

for payment will receive cost-share assistance for the 

construction of new or renovated grain storage capacity 

and equipment required to meet drying and handling 

needs to support the orderly marketing of commodities 

in counties affected by these disaster events. FSA will 

not be able to approve and fund all eligible applications 

that have already been received by FSA even with the 

increase in funding. Therefore, the original application 

deadline has been modified to Aug. 7, 2023.

At the election of the producer, one partial payment 

and one final payment will be available. The partial 

payment will be made to facilitate the purchase and 

construction of the eligible on-farm grain storage 

capacity and drying and handling equipment and will 

be made after the approved applicant has completed a 

commensurate share, up to 50%, of the construction or 

purchase of the eligible on-farm grain storage materials 

and drying and handling equipment.

The final payment will be made after the eligible on-farm 

storage capacity and drying and handling equipment has 

been fully delivered, erected, constructed, assembled, 

or installed. An FSA employee may inspect and verify the 

amount of construction completed before a partial and 

final payment is disbursed.

Socially Disadvantaged, Limited Resource, 

Beginning, or Veteran Farmer or Ranchers

An eligible producer who certifies they are socially 

disadvantaged, limited resource, beginning and veteran 

farmer or rancher will receive 90 percent of the payment 

rate for the losses under EGSFP. Failure of applicant 

to submit form CCC-860 will result in an applicant’s 

payment being calculated using the lower payment rate 

that applies to all other applicants. An applicant who 

has filed CCC-860 certifying their status as a socially 

disadvantaged, beginning, or veteran farmer or rancher 

for a prior program year is not required to submit a 

subsequent certification of their status.

Assistance for Producers Not Funded Through 

EGSFP

Producers in the geographic impact area who applied 

for EGSFP and do not receive funding through EGSFP 

will be contacted by FSA.

In the meantime, for producers who may be interested, 

FSA’s Farm Storage Facility Loan Program (FSFL) can 

immediately provide low-interest financing for eligible 

producers who may not qualify for EGSFP but need onfarm storage capacity. FSA is also currently reviewing 

FSFL policies to determine whether certain flexibilities 

can be made, or waivers granted, to further reduce 

FSFL financial obligations for producers in need of 

immediate grain storage. FSA will announce planned 

additional assistance in the coming weeks.

More Information

This fact sheet is provided for informational purposes 

only; other restrictions or requirements may apply. For 

more information about EGSFP, visit FSA.USDA.gov/

EGSFP or contact your local FSA office for details. To 

find your local FSA office, visit farmers.gov.

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