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The bill delivers targeted, sizable emergency revenue relief to many farmers, but it draws heavily on CCC funds and imposes eligibility and documentation rules that could leave some producers and other farm programs shortchanged.
Farmers and agricultural workers receive direct emergency payments totaling up to $15 billion ($7.5B per year) to partially compensate revenue losses for 2025 or 2026.
Producers with documented revenue declines can receive payments based on their actual losses, improving cash flow and short-term financial stability for affected operations.
Aid is limited to producers with adjusted gross income (AGI) ≤ $500,000, focusing assistance on smaller and medium-sized operations rather than very large agribusinesses.
The program uses $15 billion from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), which may reduce funding available for other farm programs or increase federal outlays borne by taxpayers.
Producers must provide detailed revenue and cost documentation (receipts, contracts), creating administrative burden and risking exclusion of those with limited record-keeping.
Producers who receive payments for 2025 are ineligible for 2026, so some operations experiencing multi-year losses may not receive compensation for a second year.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Provides $15 billion in one-time CCC payments to eligible corn, cotton, peanut, poultry, and soybean producers to cover revenue losses for crop years 2025 and 2026.
Provides $15 billion in one-time emergency payments to eligible producers of corn, cotton, peanuts, poultry, and soybeans to cover revenue losses tied to tariff impacts for crop years 2025 and 2026. Payments are drawn from Commodity Credit Corporation funds, split $7.5 billion for each crop year, and must be paid by set deadlines; a producer receiving a 2025 payment is ineligible for 2026. Payments are limited to qualifying producers whose average adjusted gross income for the crop year and the preceding year does not exceed $500,000 and who document total revenue (defined as average adjusted gross income minus cost of production). The Secretary of Agriculture sets the payment formula and awards payments up to the $15 billion cap.
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make economic assistance payments to qualifying producers for certain revenue losses with respect to covered commodities, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 15, 2026 by Shomari C. Figures · Last progress July 15, 2026