{"id":7933,"date":"2026-01-06T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:06:53","slug":"usda-announces-commodity-payment-rates-for-farmer-bridge-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/2026\/01\/usda-announces-commodity-payment-rates-for-farmer-bridge-assistance-program\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Announces Commodity Payment Rates for Farmer Bridge Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>(Washington, D.C., December 31, 2025) <\/strong><strong><em>\u2013<\/em><\/strong> Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the next phase in the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program (FBA), the eligible commodity per-acre payment rates. As announced earlier this month by President Trump and Secretary Rollins, $12 billion will be paid to American farmers in 2026. Of that amount, $11 billion consists of one-time FBA program payments. This is in response to four years of disastrous Biden administration policies that created record-high input and production costs, zero new trade deals, and a forgotten rural America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump committed to increase certainty in the farm economy, and farmers can count on these payment rate calculations when going to the bank as they plan for the spring planting season. Putting Farmers First means delivering real relief when it matters. Farmers who qualify for the FBA Program can expect payments in their bank accounts by February 28, 2026,\u201d\u202f<strong>said Secretary Brooke Rollins<\/strong>. \u201cThese one-time payments give farmers the bridge to continue to feed and clothe America and the world while the Trump Administration continues opening new markets and strengthening the farm safety net.&nbsp; USDA is making this process as simple and seamless as possible so producers can focus on what they do best \u2013 feeding and fueling our nation.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/12\/31\/usda-announces-commodity-payment-rates-farmer-bridge-assistance-program\">&nbsp;READ MORE&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, D.C., December 31, 2025) \u2013 Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the next phase in the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program (FBA), the eligible commodity per-acre payment rates. As announced earlier this month by President Trump and Secretary Rollins, $12 billion will be paid to American farmers in 2026. Of that amount, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agribusiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7934,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions\/7934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}