You can review the Administration's interpretation of this popular 2008 Farm Bill program by clicking here, or pointing your browser to www.fsa.usda.gov. Look for NWOA's comments on this proposal online and in National Woodlands magazine.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
FSA Releases Proposed Rules for BIOMASS CROP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (BCAP)
You can review the Administration's interpretation of this popular 2008 Farm Bill program by clicking here, or pointing your browser to www.fsa.usda.gov. Look for NWOA's comments on this proposal online and in National Woodlands magazine.
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How is the intent of Congress being met, to stimulate investment in the growing and producton of biomass feedstocks, when the qualified conversion facilities are simply lowering their delivered prices and essentially absorbing all of the BCAP funds into their margins?
As a taxpayer, I do not want to pay taxes to the federal government to simply distribute to shareholders in forest products corporations.
If the BCAP program could be run with some system of checks and balances that monitored artificial market pricing and did not allow this type of activity to take place, then perhaps it could be of some benefit to the family forest landowners, but looking at the current proposed rules, there is no mechanism in place that would keep the receiving facilities from lowering their prices below actual market value for the biomass.
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