{"id":176418,"date":"2019-07-25T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=176418"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T20:01:19","slug":"farmers-union-comments-on-payment-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=176418","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Union comments on payment details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33006\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (NDFU)\u00a0 North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) welcomed on Thursday&#8217;s USDA release of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payment details.<\/p>\n<p>NDFU President Mark Watne says, \u201cThis is everything Farmers Union has worked on for months.\u00a0 When other groups were telling us payments wouldn\u2019t happen, we stood up and said, \u2018It has to happen.\u00a0 We appreciate Sen. (John) Hoeven\u2019s leadership efforts on behalf of family farmers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With net farm income plummeting for a sixth consecutive year and crop markets devastated by a trade war with China, farmers will receive payments for every commodity covered under Title 1 of the Farm Bill, regardless of what crops they produce in 2019, according to USDA. Every county in the nation has been assigned a payment rate that ranges from $15 to $150.<\/p>\n<p>Watne noted, \u201cIf the trade war continues, this will be the beginning of payments farmers will need for survival.\u00a0 This payment isn\u2019t peanuts. It will make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Producers can sign up for MFP payments starting Monday, July 29, thru Friday, Dec. 6. Fifty percent of the payment will be distributed in mid-to-late August. If market conditions and trade opportunities improve, payments will be discontinued. If market conditions don\u2019t improve, 25% of the payment will be paid in November and the final 25% in early January.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about payment rates, crops and livestock covered, and payment limitations, go to <em>farmers.gov.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (NDFU)\u00a0 North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) welcomed on Thursday&#8217;s USDA release of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payment details. NDFU President Mark Watne says, \u201cThis is everything Farmers Union has worked on for months.\u00a0 When other groups were telling us payments wouldn\u2019t happen, we stood up and said, \u2018It has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176420,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418\/revisions\/176420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}