Source: WALLACES FARMER, 3/19/18


A bipartisan group of House members have introduced legislation to reauthorize the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network. The program was authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill to provide farmers with stress assistance programs, however it was not funded and was allowed to cease. The STRESS Act, as it is known, was introduced by Reps. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., Tom O’Halleran, R-Ariz., Rick Nolan, D-Minn., David Young, R-Iowa, Mark Pocan, D-Wis., Rodney Davis, R-Ill., Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., John Katko, R-N.Y., and Chellie Pingree, D-Maine.

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