Farm Disaster Forms Tweaked: Comment Before Snoozing
Published Date: 10/14/2026
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Summary
The Farm Service Agency is updating how it collects info to help farmers and ranchers get disaster aid faster and more accurately. If you’re involved in farming or ranching, these changes could affect how you apply for emergency loans and other help. Comments on these updates are open until December 14, 2026, so now’s the time to speak up!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Electronic customer data submission and larger respondent pool
FSA revised the Critical Customer Data collection (AD-2047) to include responses and burden hours for a new electronic submission method as part of the One Farmer, One File initiative. The collection is estimated to average 0.05 hours per response with 332,231 respondents and 332,231 total annual responses, for 16,612 total annual burden hours; FSA says respondents increased by 170,981 and burden hours increased by 8,549 due to more new customers in new programs. AD-2047 can still be provided in person or submitted by mail, fax, email, phone, Box, or OneSpan, and the agency states this approach minimizes burden on customers by allowing data to be provided during routine service-center visits while adding an electronic option.
Farmer surveys tied to disaster loans
FSA revised the Disaster Assistance–General information collection that is used to establish county eligibility for Secretarial disaster designations, which make emergency loans available to eligible farmers and ranchers. If a county’s Loss Assessment Report (LAR) does not show a 30 percent or greater loss of at least one crop, FSA employees will conduct a survey of farmers in that county; the agency estimates 98 respondents, 98 total annual responses, 0.3724 hours per response, and 37 total annual burden hours. This revision updates the expected number of requests and the need to conduct farmer surveys.
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