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State FSA director outlines Farmer Bridge payments, farm‑bill updates and tech plans
Summary
Wendy Wilton told lawmakers Farmer Bridge Assistance will use crop reports (deadline Dec. 19) to issue rapid price‑per‑acre payments starting in February; she also highlighted farm‑bill changes expanding Dairy Margin Coverage and ARC‑PLC and described plans for a precision agriculture crop‑reporting platform.
Wendy Wilton told the committee that the Farmer Bridge Assistance program is designed to be rapid and streamlined: USDA will use crop reports to calculate a price‑per‑acre payment for eligible commodities and aims to begin issuing payments in February. "Some of our programs... if someone submitted a crop report, which was due by December 19 for this program... the only thing the producer has to do is receive that application, sign it, bring it to us,…
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