{"id":1342,"date":"2020-05-19T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:06:49","slug":"usda-announces-details-of-direct-assistance-to-farmers-through-the-coronavirus-food-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/usda-announces-details-of-direct-assistance-to-farmers-through-the-coronavirus-food-assistance-program\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Announces Details of Direct Assistance to  Farmers through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_001\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 350px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwagec.org\/rightrisk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020_05_19_RRNewsrelease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-001\" title=\"RightRisk Post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwagec.org\/rightrisk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/RRNR_20200519_fb.png\" alt=\"Graphic of RightRisk Newsrelsease\" width=\"388\" height=\"388\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>U.S.<\/strong> Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which will provide up to $16 billion in direct payments to deliver relief to America\u2019s farmers and ranchers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Commodities covered include: Non-Specialty Crops and Wool; Livestock, Dairy; and Specialty Crops.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Payments are limited to $250,000 per person or entity for all commodities combined. Producers will also have to certify they meet the Adjusted Gross Income limitation of $900,000 unless at least 75 percent or more of their income is derived from farming, ranching or forestry-related activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwagec.org\/rightrisk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020_05_19_RRNewsrelease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to learn more.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which will provide up to $16 billion in direct payments to deliver relief to America\u2019s farmers and ranchers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/usda-announces-details-of-direct-assistance-to-farmers-through-the-coronavirus-food-assistance-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rightrisk-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightrisk.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}