Nearly 70 Republican lawmakers have signed off on a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack voicing their disappointment in the methodology used to calculate payments for the 2022 Emergency Relief Program. The ERP program provided farmers with more than 75 percent of their calculated losses in 2020 and 2021. For 2022, those payments will be closer to ten percent of the calculated losses. North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, who is the ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, was behind a similar letter two weeks ago. USDA officials have blamed Congress for not providing enough funding to adequately cover the losses for the 2022 growing season.
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