House members introduce bill to extend the popular Emergency Relief Program support for producers.
USDA has processed more than 255,000 applications for the new Emergency Relief Program, providing to date more than $6.1 billion in payments to commodity and specialty crop producers to help offset eligible losses from 2020 and 2021 natural disasters. A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation to reauthorize ERP, formerly known as WHIP+, for natural disasters that occurred in 2022.
By breaking-down agency barriers, using existing data across USDA and pre-filled applications, USDA’s Farm Service Agency in cooperation with the Risk Management Agency has been able to expediently provide economic relief and save producers and staff over a million hours of time.