North Dakota Senator John Hoeven hosted a call with local farm groups to get feedback on the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program direct payments last week. In the discussion, North Dakota Soybean Growers Association president Joe Ericson asked North Dakota Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Brad Thykeson for clarification on how unharvested acres would be handled for inventory. “As far as your 50 percent production, I would delay your application, get that corn harvested and apply with those bushels as your production,” said Thykeson. “It is eligible.” More funding will be needed for the program. “There’s a few different funding options we’re pursuing that would go toward the later losses after quarter one,” explained Hoeven. “In the HEROES Act, there are some things we could work with and the most immediate is if we can get $30 billion in appropriations going right away in June. I’m also pushing to get quality loss adjustments for the WHIP+ program.”
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