disaster aid

As most producers know by now, disaster aid payments are almost always at least a year after the actual disaster. USDA will provide more than $3 billion to commodity and …

Farmers and livestock producers hit by natural disasters going back to 2020 will start to see the last of $1.75 billion in disaster aid from USDA starting this week. The …

Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, both California Democrats, and Reps. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., have introduced the Agricultural Emergency Relief Act to create a permanent structure …

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2023 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced plans to roll out $3.7 billion in Emergency Relief Program (ERP) and Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) assistance to …

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, recently introduced the Livestock Disaster Assistance Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation that would …

The USDA announced another phase of assistance will be forthcoming to commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2020 and 2021. Over 18,000 producers will soon be …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it will indefinitely extend the deadline for producers to return the pre-filled applications for Phase One of the Emergency Relief Program …

On May 16, USDA announced that some commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2020 and 2021 will soon be eligible to receive emergency relief payments totaling …

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 will soon …

OMAHA (DTN) — The details of how USDA will spend $9.25 billion of disaster aid for crop producers should be announced in the next couple of weeks with payments potentially …