Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind is demanding changes to how the USDA distributes Market Facilitation Payments. He says the current payments favor large farmers. National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson agrees that the distribution method has problems.

He says it’s difficult however, to say how that change should be made.

Johnson says rather than having the administration handle the MFP distribution, it should be done through both the Senate and House Agriculture Committees.

Kind says the problem with the present MFP system is that the top one percent of large farms received an average of $183,000 in trade aid while the bottom eighty percent received under $5,000 on average. He wants the Ag Secretary to make sure the second trade aid package is effectively spending taxpayer dollars.