Some corn and soybean farmers remain confused about
how USDA calculates Coronavirus Food Assistance Program payments.

Kent Thiesse, a farm management analyst with MinnStar Bank in southern Minnesota, says he continues to get questions about how “non-specialty” crops are covered in CFAP.

“A lot of folks are thinking they are being shorted on their payments. And the formula is actually, for a simple program, is quite complicated. The application form is very simple, but there’s a double factor in there of .5 that kind of confuses people.”

He tells Brownfield the calculation is based off 2019 production.

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