Catenaa, Monday, December 08, 2025- The Trump administration on Monday will unveil the farm aid package, offering $12 billion in assistance to a key base of support hit hard by low crop prices and the impact of the tariff policies.
The aid will include up to $11 billion in one-time payments to crop farmers under the Department of Agriculture’s newly designed Farmer Bridge Assistance program, while the remaining is reserved for crops not covered under the FBA, Bloomberg reported.
Farmers with an adjusted gross income average below $900,000 for the 2022-2024 tax years are eligible and will have until December 19 to submit acreage reporting data to determine their payment amount.
Rates will be released by month’s end. The administration expects to distribute the assistance no later than the end of February 2026, though it could come earlier.
The aid comes amid rising frustration among farmers on the slow pace of Chinese purchases, which Beijing clamped down on earlier this year in retaliation for Trump’s escalating tariff barrage.
President Donald Trump plans to announce the package around 2 p.m. in Washington during an event with corn, cotton, sorghum, soybean, rice, cattle, wheat, and potato farmers, alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Farming communities, which voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the 2024 election, have seen export markets for many crops dry up, particularly soybeans, as Chinese purchases stalled earlier this year.
While the administration has scaled back federal safety net programs in the president’s second term, it included fresh funds for farmers in Trump’s signature government spending bill earlier this year.
Soybean purchases have since gradually ramped up after an agreement in late October between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
China last month made its biggest daily buy of American soybeans in two years, and the total volume sold to the Asian nation since October 30 has so far amounted to about 2.8 million tons, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
