Photo credit: Wisconsin Farmers Union
More than $432 million in farm aid paid to struggling Wisconsin farmers. (Wisconsin State Journal, 2/10/2020)
Farmers across the country were offered an infusion of cash from the federal government, meant as a life raft to help them stay afloat during turbulent times, in the form of the Market Facilitation Program (MFP). But a number of Wisconsin farmers said the payments they received did little to fix the damage caused by tariffs placed on dairy and agricultural products.
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