The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is fast-tracking $10 billion in emergency economic aid to farmers, aiming to get funds into producers’ hands within weeks, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced at the Commodity Classic in Denver last week.

“We have been working very diligently and as quickly as humanly possible, understanding the urgency of getting these funds out the door,” Rollins told a standing-room-only group of farmers and agribusiness representatives at the event’s trade show arena in the Colorado Convention Center. 

“Our approach is guided by three principles … We want the process to be simple, transparent and fast. My team has been working to stand up this process.”

The relief, passed by Congress in December, is structured under the new Emergency...