USDA recently announced additional assistance to growers impacted by disruptions due to COVID-19 through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). The program will make certain contract livestock, including contract poultry growers, and turfgrass sod growers eligible for financial assistance with CFAP 2. Other eligible producers of aquaculture, nursery crops, row crops, specialty crops, specialty livestock, and tobacco who signed up for payments before the original closing date of Dec. 11, 2020, are also now eligible for updated payment calculations for CFAP 2. Swine producers will receive a top-up payment on CFAP 1. Producers will have till February 26, 2021, to apply for the assistance, and swine producers will not need to do anything to receive the top-up payment.
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