Commodity Credit Corporation Approved to Use CCC-556 Form for Specialty Crop Payments

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has received approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to continue collecting information from farmers in the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) program. This approval covers the use of several standard forms and adds the CCC-556 form to the list of documents the CCC will use to issue payments to producers. The approval is valid until October 31, 2027.

Why it matters: This action is mostly administrative. It keeps the paperwork for the specialty crop payment program legal and current. The practical update is the use of the CCC-556 form, which the FSA will pre-fill with previously reported acreage data. This should reduce the amount of information farmers need to enter manually, but the program’s eligibility rules and payment amounts do not change.

Who it affects

• Farmers who grow specialty crops and apply for assistance under the ASCF program.

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This notice comes from the Commodity Credit Corporation and was filed in the Federal Register on June 10, 2026. If you need the exact form numbers or control codes for compliance, check the original document before relying on this summary.

Agency: Agriculture Department, Commodity Credit Corporation
Source: Federal Register — read the official document