On May 16, USDA announced that some commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2020 and 2021 will soon be eligible to receive emergency relief payments totaling about $6 billion to offset…
On Nov. 8, USDA began rolling out over $185 million in final Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program + (WHIP+) disaster assistance payments to farm and ranch families who faced losses from 2019 natural disasters. A little…
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Calculations To begin Farm Bureau economists compiled a list of states impacted by weather events in 2020 that would have qualified for Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus. All D3 or D4 droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires were included. Affected states were selected using the National Drought Mitigation Centerâs U.S. Drought Monitor and FEMAâs presidential disaster list. States that had any form of D3 or D4 drought were automatically included in the analysis. States that suffered one or more of the weather events that qualify for Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus and had a presidential-declared disaster were also included in the analysis.