Alabama Forest Restoration and Fertilizer & Middle East War
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.**Alabama landowners can now apply for assistance through the USDA Farm Service Agency’s Emergency Forest Restoration Program.
Alabama’s 67 counties are approved for the EFRP to restore and rehabilitate private forest lands impacted by drought and insect infestation.
The performance-based, cost-share program provides forest owners financial and technical assistance on nonindustrial private forest land.
Alabama FSA urges impacted forest landowners to apply for EFRP promptly.
The application deadline is March 31st.
www.alfafarmers.org/alabama-landowners-approved-for-emergency-forest-restoration-assistance/
**Deputy Secretary Xochitl (so-CHEEL) Torres Small says the
USDA is partnering with farmers and small businesses to expand access to clean energy and lower energy bills through the Rural Energy for America Program.
She announced an additional $104 million in REAP loans and grants that will lower their energy costs and help expand their operations.
Those loans and grants will support more than 300 clean energy projects in 34 states.
**Farmdoc says the ag sector is closely watching the fertilizer markets because of the ongoing war in the Middle East.
Following months of tight supplies, global nitrogen values started rising recently.
The Middle East is an important area for fertilizer production in general, but it’s especially important for nitrogen.
StoneX’s Josh Linville says Iran’s attack on Israel didn’t impact shipping lanes but may have forced the market to finally admit supplies are tight.