Source: Brad Haire, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 10/24/18


If farmers heavily damaged by Hurricane Michael don’t get financial assistance soon, they will not be planting a crop in 2019. U.S. Congressman Austin Scott (R-GA) took the podium and faced a friendly but pensive crowd of around 550 Georgia farmers, lenders and agribusiness professionals who had gathered at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus in Tifton, Ga., Oct. 22 to hear USDA officials explain currently available disaster programs to help them...

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