USDA expects to make more Coronavirus Food Assistance

Program payments on additional specialty crops.

AMS Deputy Administrator for Specialty Crops Sonia Jimenez says the agency asked for input following the initial program announcement and received more than 1,700 comments.

“We’re still going through comments, there are many, many, many more commodities that we’re still looking at, but we wanted to publish those that we had already made decisions on.”

USDA first announced the CFAP program in April and added more than 40 additional crops and expanded coverage during the beginning of July.

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