More than 40 days ago, Congress approved a continuing resolution that included WHIP+ program money for 2020 and 2021 disasters. The USDA has not made an official announcement about a launch date of the program. Combest, Sell and Associates managing partner and ag lobbyist Tom Sell hasn’t heard much. “The USDA had the WHIP+ program model in 2017, tweaked it in 2018 and perfected it in 2019. The expectation in the country is USDA could roll this out quickly. We aren’t seeing any real acknowledgement that this is there.” Sell is slightly concerned the program details haven’t been released yet. “There are many things going on in Washington D.C. USDA is still operating on short staff and they’re dealing with attrition, because of things like the vaccine mandate. There are big issues the USDA is dealing with now.”
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