USDA plans to release trade aid models

The USDA says it will be releasing the models used to calculate payment rates set in the trade aid program this week.

“You’d made your crop plans, you’d gotten your financing in order, and this sort of thing happens—it’s not your fault.”

Secretary Sonny Perdue reiterated the agency’s commitment to being objective when discerning the value of hardship caused to farmers in trade disputes while addressing National Farmers Union members in D.C. 

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