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Farmers Can Apply For Federal Ag Assistance Program

By Bill Dubensky Feb 24, 2026 | 5:35 AM

(Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

 

(North Dakota Monitor) – The federal government has announced help for sugar producers as an application period opens for a previously announced $12 billion farmer assistance program.

Brad Thykeson, North Dakota’s state director for the Farm Service Agency, was likely among the first to use the online application site for the Farmer Bridge Assistance program announced in December.

Thykeson, who farms with two sons in Steele County, said he got a text message from Jared Hagert, the North Dakotan who is the new U.S. Department of Agriculture deputy administrator of farm programs, encouraging him to test out the application site that went live Monday morning.

The payment calculator relies on reports filed last summer about how many acres a farmer planted to various crops.

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