According to the Post article yesterday, the Farm Bureau estimates the cost of the 120 percent payments to indebted socially disadvantaged farmers will be $4 billion.
One of my frustrations is the difficulty of finding current CCC financial data. IIRC once I found it over in the Treasury website, but it's definitely not a user-friendly process.
I would like to find the basis for the estimate--what's the total outstanding debt for all farmers in the categories eligible for the forgiveness payments? Just sent USDA a request for the data--will see if they can respond.
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