More details released for USDA bridge payment program | Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network

USDA offers specialty crop bridge payments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended up to $1 billion of assistance to specialty crop growers. The payments offer a one-time bridge to help make up for market disruptions, input costs, inflation and unfair export impediment, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture news release on Feb. 13.  The payments come from the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers Program and are based on acreage, not revenue. Growers have until March 13 t…

More details released for USDA bridge payment program | Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced details of the bridge assistance payment program for specialty crop growers. Up to $1 billion was set aside in December for specialty crop growers to receive financial help through the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program. John Walt Boatright, director of government affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said the aid will go to farmers based on a rate that is still to be announced. https://d30hko