USDA Launches $12B Farmer Bridge Payment Program

The USDA’s $12 billion Farmer Bridge Payment program begins today — a direct rescue for the producers who’ve carried this country through crisis after crisis while Washington looked everywhere but rural America. For years, farmers have been hit with rising input costs, supply chain chaos, foreign competition, and policies that treated them like an afterthought. Today’s program doesn’t fix all of that, but it finally acknowledges something obvious: a nation that wants to stand on its own needs a strong agricultural backbone.