{"id":149891,"date":"2018-07-24T16:47:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149891"},"modified":"2018-07-24T21:26:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T02:26:57","slug":"farmers-union-welcomes-trumps-emergency-aid-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149891","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Union welcomes Trump’s emergency aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown (NDFU)\u00a0 \u2013 The ND Farmers Union welcomed the Trump administration\u2019s announcement Tuesday of $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers affected by recently imposed trade tariffs. The relief plan will include direct assistance, a food purchase and distribution program, and a trade promotion program, according to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue.<\/p>\n

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NDFU President Mark Watne says,\u00a0 \u201cWe are pleased that the administration heard our voices at the Rally for Agriculture.\u00a0 The trade war we are engaged in has had a profound impact on producers\u2019 bottom lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watne said nationwide estimates show farmers lost more than $13 billion last month alone due to trade disruptions.<\/p>\n

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Perdue said USDA will tap into Commodity Credit Corporation funds to provide the emergency relief, and that congressional approval isn\u2019t required for the disbursement.<\/p>\n

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Watne adds, \u201cWe are, however, far from breathing a sigh of relief.\u00a0 Emergency aid will never replace good market prices. This doesn\u2019t solve the trade war, it just provides temporary relief to batten down the hatches.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watne said efforts to lower the benchmarks for ethanol production and the trade war bring urgency to passing a farm bill with higher reference prices that reflect the cost of production.<\/p>\n

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Jamestown (NDFU)\u00a0 \u2013 The ND Farmers Union welcomed the Trump administration\u2019s announcement Tuesday of $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers affected by recently imposed trade tariffs. The relief plan will include direct assistance, a food purchase and distribution program, and a trade promotion program, according to U.S. Secretary of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149897,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149891\/revisions\/149897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}