The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has processed more than 255,000 applications for the new Emergency Relief Program (ERP).
Approximately $6.1 billion in payments have been made to commodity and specialty crop producers to help offset eligible losses from qualifying 2020 and 2021 natural disasters.
By breaking-down agency barriers, using existing data across USDA and pre-filled applications, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) in cooperation with the Risk Management Agency (RMA) has been able to expediently provide economic relief and save producers and staff over a million hours of time.