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Help Coming to America's Farmers

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Mike Tomko

Director, Communications

photo credit: AFBF Photo, Morgan Walker

Mike Tomko

Director, Communications


Up to $15.5 billion could soon be on the way to farmers under a USDA plan to fight the economic effects of coronavirus.

“It’s not enough to cover all of agriculture, but we see it as a first step,” said Andrew Walmsley, director of Congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation’s largest farmer trade group.

“We expect there will be more aid going forward.”

Read the entire Reuters story here.