By Ryan Hanrahan
Bloomberg’s Skylar Woodhouse reported that “Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said President Donald Trump’s administration will resume distributing $3 billion in aid from the Farm Service Agency that had been halted as a result of the three-week-long government shutdown.”
“‘President Trump will not let the radical left Democrat shutdown impact critical USDA services while harvest is underway across the country,’ Rollins said in a social media post Tuesday. ‘Thursday, USDA will resume Farm Service Agency core operations, including critical services for farm loan processing,'” Woodhouse reported. “Rollins also said that agriculture risk coverage and price loss coverage payments — financial guarantees for farmers to protect against fluctuations in crop prices — and other programs would resume operating.”
Agri-Pulse’s Philip Brasher reported that “the payments under the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage payments are for farmers signed up for the programs in 2024. ARC and PLC payments are made in the October of the following year. About $1.9 billion in ARC payments and $589 million in PLC payments were expected to be made this year, according to The University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute.”
“ARC payments are triggered when county revenue falls below the average for the previous five years. PLC payments are made when the average market price for a commodity is below its reference price,” Brasher reported. “Rollins didn’t provide any more detail in her post, and neither did the department in a response to a query from Agri-Pulse.”
Source : illinois.edu