USDA Payment Depends on Farm Structure

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If you farm through an LLC or an S corporation, you could be eligible for a bigger USDA payment limit. There’s a Sept. 15 deadline in the mix — as well as some confusion around exactly what must happen before that date.

Technically, Sept. 15 is the deadline to make any changes to the structure of your farm — not necessarily a USDA paperwork deadline. The final rule in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act uses your organizational structure as of Sept, 15, 2026, to set your entity type for the 2026 program year, and FSA can take the Form CCC-902E after that. However, not every county office is interpreting the rule that way. Some are telling producers the paperwork has to be in by Sept. 15, but others are treating Sept. 15 as the structure date.

What should you do? Call and ask your county office one question: Do you want my updated 902E in hand by Sept. 15, or will you accept it after? Get the answer from the person who will actually key it in.

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