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lion was appropriated for the payments, Congress mandated that $200 million be made available for assistance to dairy farmers. As a result, individual farmers received about 49.72 percent of their total FY ‘98 PFC payment.
USDA intends to make announcements about otner provisions in the relief package, including disaster relief in the upcoming weeks.
Rappahannock has also been approved for the Livestock Assistance program. Eligible livestock producers must have suffered a 40 percent or greated loss of normal grazing production for 90 or more consecutive days during 1998.
Producers must file an application certifying to the number of eligible livestock and the number of grazing acres. Eligible livestock must have been owned for at least
98.3%