Hobby Stripling, State Executive Director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Georgia, announced that USDA has a revised Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers (TAAF) Program. Under the program, the USDA provides technical assistance and cash benefits to eligible producers of raw agricultural commodities and fishermen who have been hurt by import competition. According to Stripling the TAAF program is for producers and fishermen who had greater than 15 percent decrease in national average price; quantity of production; the value of production; or in cash receipts compared to the average of the
Revised trade adjustment assistance for farmers program announced