Overview
- Up to $11 billion would be paid once to row-crop farmers under the Farmer Bridge Assistance program, with the balance reserved for other crops.
- The announcement is expected today at an event with producers from major commodities alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, according to a White House official.
- USDA’s Farm Service Agency would administer the payments under CCC Charter Act authority.
- The move follows more than $9 billion already disbursed this year under the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program and echoes $28 billion in farm aid during Trump’s first term.
- China has bought 2.25 million tons of U.S. soybeans since Oct. 30 after a late-October agreement, including the largest daily purchase in two years in November, yet sales remain below farmers’ expectations.