The Market Facilitation Program that will provide direct payments to help corn, cotton, sorghum, soybean, wheat, dairy and hog farmers who have been directly impacted by illegal retaliatory tariffs, begins today. If farmers plan to apply for the payments, they must due so before January 15, 2019.
House and Senate committee leaders reached a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on 2018 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) legislation earlier this week, known as the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (House Amendment to S. 2800). Learn more about this news in this audio update with IL Corn and Waterways Council, Inc., President and CEO Mike Toohey.
We are officially ten days away from the Farm Bill 2014 expiration date. On September 30, farmers are operating under no farm policy, unless Congress either finalizes a new bill or extends the current bill. The closer we get to the deadline, the more likely an extension becomes, but an extension leaves an important trade program, the Foreign Market Development program, unfunded. Listen...
