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Few Details on Ag Bail Out Plan

Few Details on Ag Bail Out Plan

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The Trump Administration is responding to Chinese tariffs on ag exports with a twelve-billion-dollar bailout for ag producers. That to make up, in part, for the losses expected in the grain and livestock markets.

Brad Lubben, an ag economist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, says the bailout has some familiar features…

Lubben says there are few details about the payments yet…

Lubben says there have been similar programs in the past..

State FSA offices don’t have many details yet of how the plan will work, or when sign up begins.

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