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USDA ISSUES FIRST CORONAVIRUS FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PAYMENTS

On Thursday, June 4 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) has already approved more than $545 million in payments to producers who have applied for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. FSA began taking applications May 26, and the agency has received over 86,000 applications for this important relief […]

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USDA CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM SIGNUP HAS OPENED

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is opening signup for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) on December 9, 2019. The deadline for agricultural producers to sign up for general CRP is February 28, 2020, while signup for continuous CRP is ongoing. Farmers and ranchers who enroll in CRP receive a yearly

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GOVERNOR WALZ REQUESTS FEDERAL RELIEF FOR MINNESOTA FARMERS IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA

Today, Thursday, November 7, Governor Tim Walz sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting a Secretarial Disaster Designation be issued for several Minnesota counties so that farmers could access federal programs to help recover from recent weather events and losses. “In recent years, farmers in the Midwest have faced numerous

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REPRESENTATIVE COLLIN PETERSON MEETS WITH POTATO AND SUGAR BEET GROWERS IN CROOKSTON

On Tuesday more than 90 local farmers, advocates, agricultural business reps and providers attended a meeting with U.S. Representative Collin Peterson at the Crookston Inn to update the representative about how a wet fall has hindered and, in some cases, shut down the harvest.  Peterson told those gathered he wanted the most up-to-date information about

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