Source: Anna-Lisa Laca, AGWEB, 9/6/18


Since further details about USDA’s Market Facilitation program, which is part of the agency’s $12 billion tariff aid package, were released, corn and wheat farmers have questioned why their payment rates are so low. USDA could release more details on how those rates were calculated as early as next week. "If you look at where tariffs were enforced and where we had shipped corn, that’s how the calculations came out," Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said...

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