Source: NATIONAL HOG FARMER, 6/15/20


On Friday, the USDA issued a Federal Register notice, clarifying a handful of provisions in the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which provides direct payments to farmers impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and was issued last month. Among the changes, USDA clarified CFAP payment calculations for livestock, including the calculations based on unpriced livestock sales from Jan. 15 to April 15, and those based on livestock inventory owned between April 16 and May 14. Under the change, the swine provisions now read as: "Payments for hogs and pigs will be equal to the sum of the results of the following two calculations: 

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