Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 8/3/21


Farm-state senators celebrated the first step of including $7 billion for disaster relief in the annual USDA-FDA funding bill, with a crucial vote looming on Thursday in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Action in the Senate mirrored efforts in the House last week to help farmers and ranchers in the face of wildfires, drought, and floods. “West of the Mississippi, we’ve got a hell of a drought. East of the Mississippi, you got flooding. We got problems everywhere,” said Montana Sen.

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