CFAP Telephone Town Hall

USDA has begun implementing the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, or CFAP, to help farmers weather the current storm. We hosted a telephone town hall with USDA officials to get details for our members. Get more information at https://mofb.org/cfap. To skip to a particular topic, here are the timestamps of each question asked during the event. 11:00 – Cattle payments – How are payments figured when you sold some before and some after the cutoff date? 13:45 – Grain payments – Same issue 17:00 – Will these payments run out? 19:00 – Dairy – is dumped milk compensated for? 20:30 – Is corn in the bin I’m planning to feed to animals covered? 22:45 – Conservation rules – do you have to be in compliance to qualify? 23:45 – Payment limits – how does business entity structure affect them? 26:45 – Soybean payments – what are the rates? 28:00 – Dairy cattle culled or sold for beef – how are they treated? 28:30 – Beef cattle – how are weight limits used? 29:15 – Applications – same application for everything? 30:45 – Payment limits – how are sole proprietorships treated with married couples? 31:45 – Dairy cows – how are slaughtered cows treated? 32:15 – Grain and silage for feed – how are they treated? 33:00 – Cattle born since January 15 – how are they treated? 33:45 – Corn sold to a feeder, all priced but not all delivered – how is this treated? 34:45 – Honey bees – are they covered? 36:00 – Poultry producers – how are contract producers treated?