Market Facilitation Program | ý Our Members Bring Choice, Value & Innovation to Agriculture Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:39:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.4 /wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fema-favicon-75x75.png Market Facilitation Program | ý 32 32 Iowa, Illinois Surpass Billion-Dollar Mark in Trade Aid /shortliner/iowa-illinois-surpass-billion-dollar-mark-in-trade-aid/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:39:55 +0000 /?p=9305 The USDA is expected to make a decision soon about whether to issue a third round of Market Facilitation Program payments. If authorized, checks would start going out this month. USDA’s Farm Service Agency has paid out nearly $11 billion in 2019, with Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota receiving the most. A breakdown of state totals:

Arkansas: $330 million
Illinois: nearly $1.1 billion
Indiana: $542 million
Iowa: $1.18 billion
Kentucky: $172 million
Michigan: $194 million
Minnesota: $801 million
Missouri: $472 million
Nebraska: $716 million
Ohio: $389 million
South Dakota: $400 million
Tennessee: $176 million
Wisconsin: $254 million
Source: Brownfield Ag News

]]> USDA Considers Third Round of Trade Aid /shortliner/usda-considers-third-round-of-trade-aid/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:49:06 +0000 /?p=9074 USDA will not decide until January whether to issue the third tranche of payments under the 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP). A trade deal with China would not necessarily stop USDA from releasing the money.

“We recognize that even if we have a trade agreement and things really get moving, we know that the farm income situation has been affected and can’t be turned around overnight,” said Deputy Agriculture Secretary Steve Censky. “So there still is a great need for those payments, particularly this year.”

Enrollment for the 2019 MFP has ended. As of Dec. 3, $10.3 billion worth of 2019 MFP payments had been made.

Farmers who produce grain, soybeans, cotton and other non-specialty crops have received $9.8 billion. Specialty crop growers have received $116 million, while the livestock sector has received $368 million.

Source: Agri-Pulse

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