EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) – The huge weapons from Washington Shall be in Wisconsin subsequent week. Each president Joe Biden and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack plan to be Inside the state on Tuesday To Converse about agriculture and completely different rural factors. Dairy is Extra probably to be extreme on the itemizing As a Outcome of the administration has introduced Further money Shall be coming to dairy farmers Contained in the subsequent 60 days.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been dealt a second setback Inside the Courts over his plan to excuse $4 billion in debt refunds for minority farmers. After a Wisconsin decide issued a restraining order earlier stopping the secretary’s plan, ancompletely different federal decide in Florida has now issued an injunction in the direction of the plan. An injunction carries more weight Inside the authorized system than a restraining order. There are A minimal of 5 more lawsuits in the direction of Vilsack’s plan That are nonetheless lively in federal courtrooms throughout the nation.

The USDA has begun sending out over 1 billion dollars to farmers who suffered pure disasters in 2018 and 2019. These funds are being made by way of The regular Loss Adjustment Program and the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus. The QLA funds are going to producers who misplaced crops and forages whereas the remaining money Shall be For A lot of who have been hit by hurricanes, wildfires and completely different qualifying pure disasters.

How would You’d like to promote your 22,500 acre ranch and nonetheless be $35 million Inside The opening. Based mostly on reviews from DTN, that’s what occurred recently to Cody Easterday, who Needed to promote his ranch and farming operation in Japanese Washington. He Needed to promote the operation because Easterday is Extra probably to spend The subsequent 20 years in jail after pleading responsible to wire fraud for dishonest Tyson Meals out of $244 million for supposedly buying for and feeding lots of of hundreds of cattle that didn’t exist. Based mostly on courtroom paperwork, Easterday started the rip-off in 2016 and ran it till he was caught in 2020. The worthwhile bid for the ranch was $209 million submitted by An group referred to as Farm Reserve which is owned by the Mormon Church. The second extreme bid of $208 million acquired here from an funding agency owned by Invoice Gates, Who’s The Most very important proprietor of farm land in America.

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