Nebraska, utilizing federal COVID-19 relief funding, has established a program to help businesses, including ranching, impacted by COVID-19. The Department of Economic Development expects to award grants of $12,000 to eligible businesses, for a total of approximately $330,000,000. The original window of application is relatively short with sign up going from June 15th, 2020 through June 26th, 2020. As this is a developing opportunity changes will and often occur. One such change is that applications of livestock producers has temporarily