Source: FARM PROGRESS, 1/22/19


Beginning Jan. 24, all FSA offices will open and offer a longer list of services. USDA has temporarily recalled all of the more than 9,700 FSA employees to keep offices open from 8 am to 4:30 pm weekdays. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue explains in a special interview with Max Armstrong how he worked with the Office of Management and Budgets to reopen the offices. “At President Trump’s direction, we have been working to alleviate the effects of the lapse in federal funding as best we can, and we are happy to announce the reopening of FSA offices for certain services,” said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

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