Source: Chris Clayton, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 5/28/20

Despite the kickoff this week of enrollment for a USDA coronavirus aid program, leaders from the National Pork Producers Council on Thursday called on the U.S. Senate to "act quickly" with another aid package that would compensate producers for losses from euthanizing hogs. Leaders from NPPC thanked USDA for roughly $1.6 billion in expected payments to hog farmers under the Coronavirus Food and Assistance Program. Still, pointing to projected losses in the $5 billion...

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