Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Wednesday that USDA is establishing new financial assistance programs to farmers and ranchers impacted by COVID-19. Vilsack said USDA is providing $6.5 billion of funding for the USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative.
“The goal for us in this effort was to try to provide as much help as equitably as possible, to as many producers as possible who have been hurt by COVID,” Vilsack said.
He said the initiative will be broken into four parts including $6 billion of assistance to a broadened range of ag producers and $500 million of funding to existing USDA programs.
