Farm Groups Ask President, Congress for Disaster Relief
A group of 135 farm organizations and banks that supply seasonal loans to farms and ranches today called on the President and
The organizations highlighted the year's unprecedented destruction in the letter. Farmers and ranchers are especially anxious for relief because these disasters have come on top of an ongoing downturn in farm income. In response, many banks have tightened credit, placing some growers in jeopardy of not receiving critical funds needed to plant this year's crops absent some form of federal relief.
"Farms across the country endured an incredibly difficult year in 2018 and the trend continues in 2019 with challenging market prices and destructive weather conditions," the groups wrote. "Historic hurricanes Florence and Michael, along with unprecedented wildfires, droughts, flooding and other natural disasters, devastated agricultural regions throughout the nation. Estimated agriculture losses in
A copy of the letter is below (https://www.fb.org/files/Coalition_Ag_Disaster_Assistance.pdf).
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The President
The
Honorable
Speaker
Honorable
Minority Leader
Honorable
Majority Leader
Honorable
Minority Leader
Dear President Trump, Speaker Pelosi, and Leaders McConnell, Schumer, and McCarthy:
The undersigned organizations request immediate action to address the dire situations impacting farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses and rural communities across the nation.
Farms across the country endured an incredibly difficult year in 2018 and the trend continues in 2019 with challenging market prices and destructive weather conditions. Historic hurricanes Florence and Michael, along with unprecedented wildfires, droughts, flooding and other natural disasters, devastated agricultural regions throughout the nation. Estimated agriculture losses in
The Southeast has been waiting more than six months for
On behalf of the thousands of impacted farm families, we cannot overstate how critical and time-sensitive it is to deliver on the commitments made last year to enact disaster relief for the farmers, ranchers and rural communities impacted by these catastrophic weather events. For many of the impacted regions, planting season is here and there is no more time for delays.
In times of unprecedented natural disasters, our nation always has stepped up to help farmers and ranchers recover and restore their farms to productivity, so they can get back to producing the food, fiber and fuel for our nation. We strongly urge you to make the compromises necessary to find a path forward to approve critically-needed disaster relief, without further delay, and as soon as
We urge you to support the farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses and rural communities that were devastated by these natural disasters.
Sincerely,
AgCarolina Farm Credit
AgChoice Farm Credit
AgCountry Farm Credit Services
AgCredit
AgFirst, FCB
AgGeorgia Farm Credit
AgPreference
AgriBank, FCB
AgSouth Farm Credit
AgTexas Farm Credit Services
Alabama
Alabama
American AgCredit
American
ArborOne Farm Credit
Capital
Central Kentucky
Central Texas Farm Credit
CoBank
Colonial
Colusa-Glenn Farm Credit Services
Compeer Financial
Cotton Producers of
Farm Credit East
Farm Credit Illinois
Farm Credit Services of America
Farm Credit Services of
Farm Credit Services of
First South Farm Credit
Fresno-
Frontier
GreenStone Farm Credit Services
MidAtlantic Farm Credit
Oklahoma AgCredit
Premier
Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association
Southern AgCredit
Southwest
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