(SPRINGFIELD) On February 23rd, two months ago today, the USDA opened enrollment for farmers who planted program crops during the 2025 crop year. The deadline to submit a completed FBA payment application to USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) was last Friday, April 17th. As of earlier this week, nearly $9.6 billion in FBA payments have been disbursed, with nearly 500,000 applications approved by the FSA. It was last December, USDA announced $12 billion in one time bridge payments, with $11 billion set aside for row crop producers and the remaining $1 billion reserved for specialty crop and sugar growers.
