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 ...