Manage Your Land Rent Risk For 2021
By Janet Kubat Willette
Delta Farm Press
Farmers manage uncertainty on daily basis, but the pandemic and the government response have delivered a new helping of unpredictability.
The congressional-approved CARES Act, which passed in March, introduced a new crop of acronyms and programs for farmers to learn and apply for, including the PPP and EIDL. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act contained $9.5 billion specifically targeted for agricultural producers, said Jonathan Coppess, director of the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program and the Bock Ag Law Policy Program and assistant professor in the Agricultural and Consumer Economics Department, University of Illinois.