McLean County Farm Bureau

FARMERS LEFT TO JOCKEY FOR BITE OF RESCUE FUNDS

The rush is on for farmers looking to stake their claim on a new trove of stimulus funds earmarked for agriculture. Perdue’s challenge is to get money into the hands of farmers, who are hemorrhaging profits and increasingly dumping their products, as fast as possible — but without skewing their business decisions like which crops to plant or drawing any charges of political favoritism. (Politico)