Some facts about the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) that you may not know.
- The average payment for farmers was less than $16,000.
- The 1% of farms that are large received 22 times more money.
- The largest 1% of farms got an average of $352,432.
- In the first round of payments, the large farms got almost $1.1 billion of the $5 billion handed out. They received one-fifth of the payments.
- Sign-up for the next round of payments goes until December 11th.