ECAP

Signups start Monday for the second round of disaster payments covering 2023 and 2024, as USDA readies its much-awaited tariff relief package expected out in December.

The USDA will issue a second Emergency Commodity Assistance Program payment to eligible producers for the 2024 crop year.

On National Ag Day, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said the agency is issuing up to $10 billion directly to ag producers through the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program for the 2024 crop year.  ECAP Rollins said will help agricultural producers mitigate the impacts of increased input costs and falling commodity prices.   “...

This weekend at Commodity Classic in Denver, CO, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins provided more details about the economic and emergency relief program for farmers, which is now called the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program, or ECAP...