USDA Announces Support for Farmers Impacted by Unjustified Retaliation and Trade Disruption
Covered crops are: alfalfa hay, barley, canola, corn, crambe, dry peas, extra-long staple cotton, flaxseed, lentils, long grain and medium grain rice, mustard seed, dried beans, oats, peanuts, rapeseed, safflower, sesame seed, small and large chickpeas, sorghum, soybeans, sunflower seed, temperate japonica rice, upland cotton, and wheat.
Dairy producers will receive a per hundredweight payment based on production history similar to the 2018 program while hog producers will receive payment based on inventory in a specific time frame. USDA indicated that rates and the time frame for determining hog inventories will be announced at a later date. READ MORE.