U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced that USDA will provide more than $531 million in congressionally mandated recovery assistance to Georgia agricultural producers through a block grant agreement with the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
It’ll help producers recover from Hurricane Helene. According to Rollins, she said President Trump has our farmers backs and will ensure you have the resources you need to continue to produce the safest, most reliable, and most abundant food supply in the world. In the meantime, Tyler Harper, the U.S. Georgia Department of Agriculture, said he’s extremely proud to announce the state of will start distributing the $531 million in federal funding.
He said the funding is absolutely essential to help our farm families bounce back from Hurricane Helene, and our team invested hundreds of hours into the negotiations process to secure the maximum possible amount of federal funding for the state and our producers. So they’re going to be distributing that $431 million on block grants to people who have applied due to the hurricane damage last year.
Audio Reporting by Tyron Spearman for Southeast AgNet.