FSA notice: Wages, dividends to qualify as farm income, changing AGI calculation (The Fence Post) 

The Fence Post published an article explaining that Without fanfare, the Agriculture Department’s Farm Service Agency last week announced that it will allow certain wages and dividends that had not been considered farm income to be considered farm income in the calculation of a farmer’s adjusted gross income, likely giving more farm operations ability to qualify for CFAP [Coronavirus Food Assistance Program] and MFP [Market Facilitation Program] payments. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said, USDA has received a lot of criticism over the fact that only half of the CFAP payments have been made. That is true even for the non-specialty crops.”