The USDA Farm Services Agency will accept new and modified Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) 2 applications starting April 5, 2021. The original application period for was from September 21 to December 11, 2020.
According to the USDA site:
“Cow milk and goat milk are both eligible for CFAP 2.
CFAP 2 payments are available for eligible producers of dairy commodities categorized as either price trigger or sales commodities. Specifically:
- Price trigger commodities suffered a five percent-or-greater national price decline in a comparison of the average prices for the week of January 13-17, 2020, and July 27-31, 2020. Cow milk is eligible for CFAP 2 as a price trigger commodity.
Dairy operations applying for CFAP 2 must be in the business of producing and commercially marketing milk at the time of application. Dairy operations that dissolve after enrollment in CFAP 2 are eligible for a prorated payment for the number of days the dairy operation commercially markets milk from September 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020. Dairy operations that dissolve prior to CFAP 2 enrollment are ineligible for CFAP 2 payments.
Payments for cow milk will be equal to the sum of the following:
- The producer’s total actual milk production from April 1, 2020, to August 31, 2020, multiplied by the payment $1.20 per hundredweight; and
- The producer’s estimated milk production from September 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020, based on the daily average production from April 1, 2020, through August 31, 2020, multiplied by 122, multiplied by a payment rate of $1.20 per hundredweight.”
Click here for more information: https://www.farmers.gov/cfap2/dairy or https://www.farmers.gov/cfap.