Farm and Family Relief Act

Key Points

• This bill provides billions of dollars in one-time payments to farmers who lost money in 2025. These payments are meant to help growers of major crops like corn, wheat, and cotton if their production costs were higher than the money they made selling their harvest.
• The plan includes $5 billion specifically for specialty crops, which covers a wide range of products including fruits, vegetables, honey, and even Christmas trees. This money is intended to help these growers find new customers and expand their businesses.
• To help families, the bill delays changes to food assistance programs. It ensures the federal government continues to pay its current share of costs for several more years instead of shifting those expenses to state governments.
• The logging and sugar industries would receive targeted support, including $500 million for timber businesses and $330 million for sugar beet cooperatives to help them recover from recent financial struggles.
• The bill would cancel several recent executive orders that added taxes, known as tariffs, on certain imported goods. This move is designed to change how those products are traded and priced.
• A new office would be created within the Forest Service to help turn government research into new products and technologies that businesses can use, with $5 million in annual funding through 2031.