USDA Eying Farm Program Signup Ahead

The USDA will move as quickly as they can when it comes to implementing the 2018 Farm Bill, with USDA Deputy Secretary Steve Censky saying signup is still going to be several weeks away. "I will be able to tell you more in a couple of weeks," Censky at a Farm Foundation event in Washington. "We are going to be moving just as quickly and prudently as we can to implement it." Top priorities for action, he said, include the new dairy subsidy, which took effect on January 1, updating provisions in the Ag Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs and trade promotion efforts