An economist with American Farm Bureau Federation says the Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity or WHIP Program has not helped farmers and ranchers in a timely fashion. Daniel Munch tells Brownfield it’s unclear exactly when WHIP will make payments. “So, not knowing when the next round of funding will be kind of dispersed for this 2020-2021 program year, it has a lot of farmers worried about their solvency and being able to make ends meet.”
Munch says WHIP came out in 2017, and then the program was extended in 2018 and 2019, but nearly three years passed for some farmers awaiting disaster payments.
