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Government Shutdown: Devastating for Family Farmers and Rural America

2015-09-29 21:51:55| National Farmers Union

By Roger Johnson, president, National Farmers Union Weve been here before. Two years ago, an early October blizzard the Atlas storm buried western South Dakota in three feet of snow, killing tens of thousands of cattle and wiping out entire herds. Ranchers, devastated, looked to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for help.

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