As farmers and ranchers face a crisis of livestock overcrowding, shuttered meat-packing plants and plummeting profits, industry experts are warning that the Trump administration's efforts to help pork and beef producers are not nearly enough to save the farms that supply America's meat.
Their pleas for more relief come amid concerns about potential meat shortages and desperation from pork producers who are running out of options -- and space for their pigs.Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced last week that his department would use stimulus funding to offer farmers and ranchers $16 billion of direct payments in an effort to cushion their losses due to Covid-19.
Tyson employee says HR told him, 'Come to work, you're safe' 02:21"USDA worked to build up this program from the ground up, evaluating the impacts of COVID-19 throughout the agricultural and food sector and then reviewed the resources we had available to do the best we can with what we have," the spokesperson told CNN."The topline numbers released are estimates based upon that process and clearly do not account for all the possible losses that have occurred.
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