Articles tagged under: WHIP+ Program

Don’t Forget WHIP+ Program in 2020 Tax Management

Published December 27, 2020

MinnStar Bank Farm Management Analyst Kent Thiesse says farmers need to account for the WHIP+ program payments when doing their year-end tax management. "Funding hadn't been authorized for some of those payments, but now, the USDA has authorized the funding.…

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WHIP+ Program Quality Loss Adjustment Expected in 2021

Published December 22, 2020

North Dakota Senator John Hoeven tells the Red River Farm Network he expects USDA to have more details about the quality loss adjustment piece of the WHIP+ program in early January. "FSA had to get the other programs out. The…

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WHIP+ Program Gets More Funding to Continue Payments

Published December 22, 2020

With President Trump's signature of the government funding bill, USDA will honor all 2018 and 2019 crop losses in the WHIP+ program and fund quality loss adjustments. For months, Northern Plains farmers have been waiting for their WHIP+ program payments…

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MN Farmer Looks Back at Year of Leading Sugarbeet Growers

Published December 3, 2020

Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association President and Ada, Minnesota farmer Neil Rockstad is wrapping up a one-year term in office. "Reflecting on the last year, we were busy with the WHIP+ program. I began my term following the monumental…

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WHIP+ Application Process is Ongoing

Published November 20, 2020

USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Richard Fordyce says local FSA offices are continuing to process WHIP+ applications.  Sign-up for  WHIP+ ended in October. "That work is still ongoing and it should be finished up soon and we'll see where we…

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USDA Still Working Through WHIP+ Program Backlog

Published November 15, 2020

As of October 27, a few days before the WHIP+ program sign-up closed, the USDA paid out more than $79.1 million to North Dakota farmers for the 2019 crop year and more than $14 million for 2018. In Minnesota, USDA…

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Hoeven Updates on WHIP+ 2019 Payments and Quality Loss

Published November 12, 2020

The WHIP+ program sign-up wrapped up at the end of October, but local farmers are still waiting for payments. For those waiting for the remaining half of the 2019 payments, North Dakota Senator John Hoeven says it will be funded.…

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FSA Continues Work on WHIP+ Program Quality Loss Provisions

Published November 5, 2020

According to North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, the Farm Service Agency is working to complete the implementation process of quality loss coverage under the WHIP+ program. Hoeven met with FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce the first week of November. To complete…

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Questions Remain on Status of 2019 WHIP+ Payments

Published October 22, 2020

There are fewer than 10 days left until the WHIP+ program sign-up closes and some farmers still waiting on half or all of their payments. Texas A&M University Agriculture and Food Policy Center co-director Bart Fischer says there isn’t a…

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WHIP+ Program Addressed at Crop Insurance Meeting

Published October 19, 2020

Pro Farmer Washington policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer told crop insurance agents the WHIP+ program is a well-intended program, but its implementation is a disaster. "It's one of the worst implementations I've seen from the USDA in recent years. There's some…

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