Loss payments to area ag producers pass $57 million

A federal program aimed at helping farmers and ranchers who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic has so far paid more than $57 million to producers in Dewey, Corson, Ziebach, Walworth and Perkins counties. The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), administered by the USDA's Farm Service Agency, accepted applications from late May to mid-September and then began a second round of…

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