The Agriculture Department failed to adequately guard against fraudulent claims by producers for payments under the $31 billion Coronavirus Food Assistance Program the Trump administration launched in ...

The outgoing Trump administration is tapping unspent Agriculture Department funding to provide coronavirus relief to contract producers for the first time while providing supplemental payments to hog ...

“Our new USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative will help get financial assistance to a broader set of producers, including to socially disadvantaged communities, small and medium sized ...

The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, or CFAP, provides direct payments to producers of agricultural commodities who have been impacted by COVID-19. CFAP 2 registration reopened on April 5. Dale ...

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) says she supports the Biden Administration’s move to freeze payments under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) in order to ...

WASHINGTON — When the pandemic struck, Cricket Jacquier had 1200 cows to milk a day but his usual milk buyers were gone. Widespread closures of schools and restaurants slammed the dairy industry hard, ...

Farmers who were facing a steep drop in government payments in 2021 will instead see a third round of coronavirus relief payments, while other producers and ag processors left out of previous aid ...

USDA announced today more than $12 billion for the Pandemic Assistance for Producers, which will help farmers and ranchers who previously did not qualify for COVID-19 aid and expand assistance to ...