Headline: Ottumwa Post, 3/7/2025
Robin Opsahl reports:
In a letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and Farm Service Agency Acting Administrator Kimberly Graham Tuesday, Iowa’s U.S. senators and representatives asked for avian metapneumovirus (aMPV), also known as turkey rhinotracheitis, to be classified as an eligible adverse event under the Livestock Indemnity Program. This classification would give farmers who have had many of their livestock die from the disease access to financial compensation.
In Iowa, the lawmakers wrote, turkey farmers have reported flock losses between 30% to 50% because of aMPV, killing an estimated 569,700 turkeys in the last year and leading to a loss of $18 million in farm income.
"Despite devastating financial shortfalls and supply chain disruptions caused by aMPV, there are currently no federal assistance programs available to offset these devastating losses, leaving many family-owned operations at risk of closure,” the Iowa delegation wrote. "Without immediate support, the viability of these farms—and the stability of the U.S. turkey industry—is in jeopardy.”
With all the chaos and confusion caused by DOGE's willy-nilly actions, how are these payments going to be administered -- processed, reviewed, approved, and distributed?
To the Iowa GOP delegation, it's as if the acronym doesn't exist.
Key words: "for now".
NPR, 3/5/2025
Plus due to the infinite stupidity and sycophancy of Kimmi the Clown, Iowa is starting up its own DOGE nonsense:
Kimmi the Clown's kind of off-the-shelf governing. (1/18/2025)
Mickey Mouse Iowa governor Kim Reynolds (aka Kimmi the Clown) pays her respects to First Felon Donald Trump. (1/17/2025)
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