USDA has more than doubled its Coronavirus Food Assistance payments as part of its second program to farmers in the last week.
As of October 13th, the agency had approved more than $4.5 billion, up from just over $2 billion a week ago. Payments to corn growers remain at the top of the list at more than $1.4 billion followed by cattle $1 billion, soybeans at $534 million, milk at $452 million, and sales commodities at $375 million.
