CFAP | CFAP dairy payments top $895 million through June 22

U.S. dairy producers received more than $895 million in direct payments through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) as of June 22. Dairy applications processed by USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices stood at 15,222.

The FSA began taking applications May 26. In the first four weeks of the application period, the top states for CFAP dairy payments were:

1. Wisconsin: $202 million – 3,804 applicants
2. California: $108.4 million – 673 applicants
3. New York: $101 million – 1,843 applicants
4. Pennsylvania: $$49.8 million – 1,525 applicants
5. Minnesota: $46.5 million – 1,349 applicants
6. Michigan: $45.1 million – 618 applicants
7. Idaho: $39.5 million – 244 applicants
8. Washington: $28.5 million – 215 applicants
9. Iowa: $26.9 million – 604 applicants
10. Ohio: $25.4 million – 590 applicants
11. Texas: $23.1 million – 183 applicants

Find the complete list here.

Overall, the USDA FSA had approved about $4 billion in payments to more than 252,489 agricultural producers who applied for assistance through the CFAP as of June 22.

In addition to dairy, payments totaled $1.98 billion to livestock producers, $1.04 billion to producers of non-specialty crops and $84.3 million to producers of specialty crops.

Applications will be accepted through Aug. 28, 2020, with application numbers and program payments announced each Monday on the CFAP website. https://www.farmers.gov/cfap

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