Source: Chris Clayton, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 8/9/21


Contract pork producers around the country have been asking since January exactly what happened to the "top-up" payments announced by the Trump administration. At least four U.S. senators now are asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack exactly what happened to that aid. Iowa's two Republican senators -- Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst -- joined Minnesota's two Democratic senators -- Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith -- to send a letter to Vilsack on the situation.

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