Organic Certification Cost Share
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
The Organic Certification Cost Share Program provides cost share assistance to producers and handlers of agricultural products who are obtaining or renewing their certification under the National Organic Program. Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce explains how organic producers can apply for this cost share.
Fordyce… “ Typically, this program's administered two different ways. The producer can go into the local FSA office and they can present their invoice, receipt, whatever, that they have had the certification done, they've paid for the certification, and this is for crop years twenty twenty-five and twenty twenty-six. If they bring in those receipts or those invoices to the local FSA office, we can submit that application for the cost share reimbursement. There's also an opportunity for states to also help with the administration of the Organic Certification Cost Share Program. That is done through a Notice of Funds Availability, a NOFA, and states will have access to that NOFA in the very near future. But historically, for example, a state department of ag can administer it.”
Certified operations may receive up to 75 percent of their certification costs paid during the program year, not to exceed $750 per certification scope.
