USDA Market Facilitation Program Deadline Approaches

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) wants to remind producers of certain commodities about the USDA Market Facilitation Program (MFP) deadline of January 15, 2019. The MFP will assist agricultural producers to meet some of the costs of disrupted markets by offering partial compensation to farmers and share-rent landowners for losses occurring because of trade disputes.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced in late September the addition of commodities to the trade mitigation package aimed at assisting farmers suffering from damage due to unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nation...