By Jacqui Fatka
Delta Farm Press
USDA has processed more than 255,000 applications for the new Emergency Relief Program, providing to date more than $6.1 billion in payments to commodity and specialty crop producers to help offset eligible losses from 2020 and 2021 natural disasters. A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation to reauthorize ERP, formerly known as WHIP+, for natural disasters that occurred in 2022.