Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) has released a new publication, Farmers’ Guide to the 2021 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The deadline to sign up for PPP is now May 31, 2021, so it is not too late to apply. The new Guide explains the important recent changes to PPP that affect farmers. For example, PPP […]

Read more

This month FLAG attorneys updated the summary of COVID-19 relief for farmers in collaboration with our partners at Farm Aid, the Indigenous Food & Agriculture Initiative, the Intertribal Agriculture Council, Rural Advancement Foundation-International, and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Navigating COVID Relief for Farmers updated February 2021 – English Navigating COVID Relief for Farmers updated […]

Read more

The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) is a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) program that gives direct payments to farmers affected by the COVID-19 crisis. This Guide focuses on recent changes to CFAP 1 and CFAP 2 introduced by the 2021 Appropriations Act, and on other recent changes made by USDA. While the main […]

Read more

On November 11, 2020, Farmers’ Legal Action Group (FLAG) published the Farmers’ Guide to Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 (CFAP 2). CFAP 2 is a completely different program than the first CFAP program, now called CFAP 1. The Farmers’ Guide is a detailed explanation of how CFAP 2 works.  This Guide, and any of its […]

Read more

On October 23, 2020, Farmers’ Legal Action Group published an updated Farmers’ Guide to Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). There have been a number of changes to the CFAP program since the first edition of this Guide was published on May 29, 2020 and since our second edition of this Guide was published on June 7th, […]

Read more