Purpose


To modify the Facilitating Agricultural Resource Management Systems (FARMS) Program eligibility requirements to allow funding assistance for projects that reduce frost/freeze protection withdrawals; to establish cost-share rates for these projects; to incorporate by reference the revised FARMS Program Funding Application Form to request information concerning these projects; and to incorporate by reference the Model FARMS Economic Update, June 2009, to provide updated estimated costs for implementing proposed projects. The estimated costs included in this publication are used to determine whether proposed projects are eligible for funding. The Model FARMS Economic Update, June 2009, replaces the 2001 Model Farms Cost publication.