The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program provides financial assistance to agricultural producers, but some commodities were left out.
The Farm Service Agency has approved more than $2.8 billion dollars to be paid to more than 220,000 producers. FSA administrator Richard Fordyce says that groups were left out of the initial phase because of a lack of information, something the agency is working to correct.
“Our approach to that was to issue a NOFA, a notice of funds availability, for the public to submit data that would support inclusion of their commodity, and that’s been a robust process,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of submissions from different commodities, either organizations representing commodities or individual producers that have submitted data.”