Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) 2

Grants to USA agricultural and livestock producers to mitigate the negative financial impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) health crisis. Funding is intended for applicants whose operations have been directly affected by the pandemic. Grants funds may be used for the purchase of materials and facilities required in connection with the production and marketing of agricultural commodities.

Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2, CFAP 2, will provide producers with financial assistance that gives them the ability to absorb some of the increased marketing costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

CFAP 2 payments will be made for three categories of commodities – Price Trigger Commodities, Flat-Rate Crops, and Sales Commodities. Eligible commodities for each category are outlined below.

• Price Trigger Commodities: Price trigger commodities are major commodities that meet a minimum five-percent price decline over a specified period of time. Price trigger commodities eligible for CFAP 2 are outlined below.
• Broilers and eggs
• Crops: barley, corn, sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers, upland cotton, and all classes of wheat.
• Dairy (cow’s milk)
• Livestock: beef cattle, hogs and pigs, and lambs and sheep. Animals raised for breeding stock are not eligible for CFAP 2.
• Flat-Rate Crops: Flat-rate crops either do not meet the five-percent price decline trigger or do not have data available to calculate a price change. Flat-rate crops include: alfalfa, amaranth grain, buckwheat, canola, Extra Long Staple (ELS) cotton, crambe (colewort), einkorn, emmer, flax, guar, hemp, indigo, industrial rice, kenaf, khorasan, millet, mustard, oats, peanuts, quinoa, rapeseed, rice, sweet rice, wild rice, rye, safflower, sesame, speltz, sugar beets, sugarcane, teff, and triticale.
• Sales Commodities: Sales commodities eligible for CFAP 2 include specialty crops, aquaculture, nursery crops and floriculture, and other commodities not included in the price trigger and flat-rate payment categories. Sales commodities eligible for CFAP 2 are outlined below.
• Aquaculture
• Dairy (goat's milk)
• Floriculture and Nursery Crops
• Specialty Crops
• Specialty Livestock
• Tobacco
• Wool

For more information on eligible commodities, see https://www.farmers.gov/cfap/commodities.

CFAP 2 will provide eligible producers with financial assistance that gives them the ability to absorb increased marketing costs associated with the COVID-19 outbreak. In accordance with 15 U.S.C. 714b, the Secretary is using funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to assist producers with the purchase of materials and facilities required in connection with the production and marketing of agricultural commodities, These authorities will be used to partially compensate producers for on-going market disruptions and assist with the transition to a more orderly marketing system by enabling them to:

• Purchase materials and facilities required in connection with the production and marketing of agricultural commodities;
• Remove or dispose of surplus agricultural commodities; and
• Develop new and additional markets, marketing facilities, and uses for the commodities.