Eastern Iowa Farmer Fall 2020
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coronavirus<br />
provide protection to<br />
farmers from substantial<br />
drops in crop prices<br />
and revenues, such as<br />
the USDA’s Agriculture<br />
Risk Coverage (ARC)<br />
and Price Loss Coverage<br />
(PLC).<br />
The government also<br />
launched some special<br />
initiatives to combat specific<br />
threats to the industry,<br />
such as trade wars<br />
and the coronavirus.<br />
Over the past two years,<br />
the federal government<br />
has paid more than $28<br />
billion in trade-related<br />
aid as the United States<br />
continues to negotiate<br />
with China and other<br />
countries.<br />
In May, <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong><br />
farmers began applying<br />
for federal COVID-19<br />
aid through their local<br />
Farm Service Agency<br />
(FSA). The $19 billion<br />
Coronavirus Food Assistance<br />
Program (CFAP)<br />
that U.S. Secretary<br />
of Agriculture Sonny<br />
Perdue announced the<br />
$19 billion Coronavirus<br />
Food Assistance<br />
Program (CFAP) in<br />
late April as farmers<br />
grappled with the impact<br />
of the pandemic on their<br />
operations, including<br />
falling ethanol production,<br />
closed meat processing<br />
plants and low<br />
commodity prices.The<br />
program provides up<br />
to $16 billion in direct<br />
payments to farmers and<br />
ranchers. Another $3 billion<br />
is being used to buy<br />
fresh produce, dairy, and<br />
meat and deliver boxes<br />
of food to Americans in<br />
need. n<br />
Managing<br />
logistics<br />
As meat packing plants shut down in the spring<br />
due to coronavirus outbreaks, <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong><br />
hog farmers had to get creative to manage<br />
through a disrupted supply chain<br />
BY Nancy Mayfield<br />
eastern iowa farmer<br />
For Clinton County<br />
farmer Chris McCulloh<br />
and other hog producers,<br />
managing logistics<br />
is the name of the game.<br />
“Everything is on a schedule,”<br />
McCulloh said mid-July, speaking<br />
from his farm about two miles<br />
west of Welton, where he and his<br />
wife, Lindsay, raise about 10,000<br />
pigs a year.<br />
“To give you an idea of how it<br />
works, we emptied our barn out<br />
last Thursday, power washed it<br />
on Friday, and set things up over<br />
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