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Annual PCG meeting to be held in April FacebookTwitterEmail th annual meeting of the Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. is scheduled for Friday, April 9. The meeting will be held at the Overton Hotel & Conference Center in Lubbock. Breakfast is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. followed by registration at 8:30 a.m. The program will begin at 9 a.m. with the luncheon slated for noon. Jim Wiesemeyer will be the featured speaker of the event. Wiesemeyer is a journalist and analyst for Pro Farmer in Washington, D.C. He returned to the publication after being a consultant in Washington for 19 years and is one of th...

USDA Freezes CFAP Payments to Farmers I think it is almost 40 years that I have been a subscriber to the Pro Farmer newsletters and daily market updates. The emphasis is grain and livestock markets but Pro Farmer also include some farm news. In yesterdays Pro Farmer Before the Open I read that the "USDA has suspended the processing and payments under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program- Additional Assistance has halted implementation until further notice. FSA offices will continue to accept applications during the coming days," said a notice on the USDA CFAP page. Remember in early Januar...

Trump signs appropriations/COVID relief bill After threatening to veto it earlier, President Trump signed the combined fiscal year 2021 omnibus appropriations and COVID-19 relief bill on Sunday. Pro Farmer says Trump’s signature means more aid is coming to farmers, and a 15 percent increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance benefits will take place over the next sixth months. The signing also eliminates a possible government shutdown. Trump is demanding changes in the bill, but Congress is not required to follow that direction. “I will sign the omnibus and COVID package with a strong ...

After threatening to veto it earlier, President Trump signed the combined fiscal year 2021 omnibus appropriations and COVID-19 relief bill on Sunday. Accordi

Steve: how do we move forward to the united states if they come to some sort of a deal it has to pass through congress. there is not enough time to do this one. this new deal would a donald trump endorsed trade deal get through a nancy pelosi run house? probably not. brian: steve, the thing is, this is for workers, afl-cio will have a role, expand their voter roles into mexico. so this is a pro-worker deal you would see on its surface and pro-farmer. sonny perdue the secretary of agriculture is lauding this. they say this will relieve some of the tariffs put pressure on iowa farmers. so prices...