Source: FARM PROGRESS, 7/25/19


Updated: Livestock producers, speciality crop growers will receive payments too
Producer payments range from $15 per acre to $150 per acre in the 2019 edition of the Market Facilitation Program. The program was structured to avoid influencing farmers’ planting decisions, USDA officials emphasized during a Tuesday morning conference call. It also took into account the historically wet spring and delayed planting as it crafted the second version of the program.

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