Farm and Family Relief Act

• Farmers and row-crop producers: Creates a 2025 crop-year assistance payment when expected gross return is below cost. Payments equal 65% of per-acre losses, paid within 90 days of enactment, and limited to $125,000 or $250,000 per person depending on farm income share.
• Sugar beet cooperatives and members: Provides block grants so cooperatives pay members for 2025 losses. The Secretary sets a per-acre rate and the program is funded at $330 million, reduced by any Farmer Bridge Assistance payments.
• Specialty crop growers: Authorizes one-time market-expansion payments with $5.0 billion available and a $900,000 cap per producer. Payments use 2025 sales or approved 2026 estimates for new producers and unobligated funds are rescinded after two years.
• Timber businesses and private forest owners: Offers one-time payments/grants and loans or guarantees for qualified timber losses or operating costs. The section sets a $40,000 payment cap or 65% of losses and a $5.0 million loan cap, with $500 million total allocated ($250 million payments/grants, $250 million loans/guarantees).
• SNAP recipients and state agencies: Delays and adjusts SNAP benefit- and administrative-cost shift triggers, moving key dates from 2028 to 2032 or 2033 and keeping a 50% administrative cost-shift delay through fiscal year 2028 and partially into fiscal year 2029.
• Forest Service researchers and tech partners: Creates an Office of Technology Transfer led by a Chief Commercialization Officer, requires annual five-year reporting to Congress, and provides $5.0 million per year from Commodity Credit Corporation funds for fiscal years 2026–2031.

*Includes direct appropriations totaling about $5.9 billion — $5.0 billion for specialty crops, $330 million for sugar beet grants, $500 million for timber programs, and $5.0 million per year for Forest Service tech transfer — which would raise federal outlays to carry out these programs.*