USDA Announces some Information on Disaster Assistance

USDA announces some information on disaster assistance

The Continuing Resolution legislation that was passed by Congress in late 2024 included $21 billion in disaster assistance for 2023 and 2024 agricultural crop losses from natural disasters, such as drought, hurricanes, severe storms, flooding, wildfires, excessive rainfall etc. Recently, USDA Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, announced some initial details for the disaster programs, which include assistance for crop and livestock producer…

USDA, U.S. disaster alert

Once you start digging into this world of ethanol’s relationship to the rest of agriculture, most would say “it’s complicated.” The one certainty is when people complain about the subsidies that flow into agriculture, corn and ethanol stand at the top of the heap. Trent Loos I am critical of subsidies and the prediction is that 2025 will see a 342% increase in direct United States farm payments. With that knowledge, people can hardly be critica…

USDA Designates Six North Dakota Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas for Drought

Montana Counties Included as Contiguous This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service