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USDA offers additional aid to dairy farmers and producers June 26, 2021 3:37 PM Kade Overton Updated: (WKBT) – The USDA Recently announced additional aid to dairy farmers and producers as part of the USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative. The plan would include $400 million for the new Dairy Donation Program to address food insecurity and mitigate food waste and loss. Additional pandemic payments targeted to dairy farmers have demonstrated losses that hav...

USDA announces additional pandemic aid to ag producers, businesses The US Department of Agriculture has announced the "Pandemic Assistance for Producers Initiative," which will provide more financial assistance to ag producers and businesses. USDA Sec. Tom Vilsack said earlier this year the department planned on a later round of financial aid to fill in the gaps from previous rounds of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program and other programs. Newly available funds will be focused on the loggi...

Pulse Growers Excluded from CFAP Funding Results in Urgent Call to Action Tuesday May 4th, 2021 The USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council (USADPLC) has confirmed that pulse crops were excluded from additional payments in the third Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) passed by Congress at the end of December 2020. Pulse crops were not alone. Every fruit, vegetable and specialty crop was excluded from the additional payment approved by Congress in December. Other program crops like wheat...

FL Ag Commissioner on USDA Support Tuesday Apr 20th, 2021 News Reporter With your Southeast Regional Ag Report, Im Trevor Williams. Floridas commissioner of agriculture is praising the USDAs Pandemic Assistance for Producers incentive, which was launched in March. The program, which offers $330 million to help agricultural producers and organizations, includes $169.9 million for the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) and $75 million for the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive...

USDA plans to end the food box program that has routed 157 million pounds of surplus food to needy people over the past year. The Farmers to Families Food Box Program will sunset at the end of May when the funding runs out, a USDA spokesperson said April 15. USDA will continue to make commodity purchases, including through a temporary fresh produce box program and a Dairy Donation Program that is in development. USDA created the food box program with stimulus funding early in the pandemic. Farm...

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2021—The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announced that it will soon implement the $400 million Dairy Donation Program established by Congress in December 2020. The department provided details on program participation to dairy processors and cooperatives in order to ensure donations of nutritious dairy products continue to make their way to Americans struggling with hunger while USDA finalizes the program. The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) a...

  The Agriculture Department announced this week that it will soon implement the Dairy Donation Program (DDP) as established in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack noted Wednesday at a House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing that USDA would not continue the Families to Farmers Food Box Program started by the Trump administration but expected to distribute dairy products from the dairy donation program. “The program will facilitate the ...

USDA Announces How $330M in COVID-19 Pandemic Aid Will be Used for More Producers and Businesses 4 hours ago On Tuesday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it is allocating $330 million to help agricultural producers and other businesses in the food supply chain bounce back after they were financially impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding is part of the departments’ USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers, an initiative announced in March.  Most of...