President Trump planned in October to use about $14 billion of tariff revenue to help farmers.
The government shutdown delayed any funding announcements.
But with the shutdown over, the path is cleared for USDA to distribute the money.
“We’ve been able to really analyze, build our formulas around what is happening,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Bloomberg. “We’re obviously in a different place than we were a couple of months ago. Having said that, we expect to release and announce that the first week of December.”