Thousands of Ohio commodity and specialty crop producers affected by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 will soon receive applications from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for relief funding.
According to a press release, the USDA is launching a another phase of assistance for Ohio farmers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021. More than 18,000 producers will soon receive new or updated pre-filled applications for disaster relief funding.
Funding for this initiative has been provided through USDA’s Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Emergency Relief Program (ERP).
“We knew when we announced ERP in May that we would have additional applications to send toward the end of the summer as we received new information, and we came to know of producers who were inadvertently left out of the first data set we used,” said USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Robert Bonnie. “I am proud of our team's continued effort to capture additional insurance records to enable over 18,000 producers to receive new or updated pre-filled disaster applications to provide much needed financial relief.”
The ERP has already paid out approximately $6.4 billion in relief funding to 165,000 producers.
Agricultural producers can receive more information on the ERP and Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) by visiting FSA’s Emergency Relief webpage.
