We deliver conservation solutions so agricultural producers can protect natural resources and feed a growing world.
The Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) program provides support to agricultural producers to help manage financial risk through diversification, marketing, or natural resource conservation practices. It is designed to assist producers in constructing or improving water management or irrigation structures, planting trees for windbreaks or to improve water quality, and mitigating risk through production diversification or conservation practices. These practices include soil erosion control, integrated pest management, or transition to organic farming. The program offers financial assistance covering up to 75% of the cost of implementing conservation practices, with total payments not exceeding $50,000 per participant per fiscal year. It also offers higher cost-share rates for historically underserved producers, although participants are subject to Adjusted Gross Income provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 and are not subject to its Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation provisions.