Items Tagged with 'Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus'

The Almond Alliance is pressing USDA on a lack of transparency and delays in distributing disaster assistance for the 2022 crop year.

California has already surpassed $101 million in USDA crop insurance indemnities due to shortages of irrigation water supplies and the numbers will likely climb much higher.

A major but temporary agricultural disaster program could be in for some revisions. The Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus, or WHIP+, provided assistance to producers for losses in 2018 and 2019.

FDA boosts traceability * Wine industry asks for disaster relief * Could farm payments be delayed? * House Ag chair’s farm policy worries

Wine groups in California, Washington and Oregon are calling on Congress to extend the wildfire and hurricane relief program.