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Lawmakers urge USDA to purchase pork, give monetary support
A gaggle of U.S. Senators and Representatives is urging Ag Secretary Perdue to have USDA make pork purchases and provides monetary support to the pork trade as COVID-19 circumstances escalate and extra meat processing vegetation shut or shut down. They’re additionally asking NRCS to supply monetary and technical help to pork producers by the EQIP program, if wanted.
They are saying it’s critically
vital to take care of the pork provide chain.
Perdue reportedly is engaged on a plan to deal with meals provide chain disruptions. The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) says vegetation are taking measures to cut back the unfold of COVID-19 together with temperature checks of employees, private protecting tools and social distancing whereas sustaining strict sanitation measures. NAMI President Julie Anna Potts was not conscious of the extent of testing being carried out for employees.
Senators who signed letter: Hawley, Blunt, Ernst, Fischer,Grassley, Thune, Klobuchar, Rounds, Sasse, Johnson, Axne.
U.S. Reps: Dusty Johnson, Cindy Axne, Don Bacon, Emanuel
Cleaver, Angie Craig, Tom Emmer, Abby Finkenauer, Jeff Fortenberry, Sam Graves,
Jim Hagedorn, Vicky Hartzler, Dave Loebsack, Billy Lengthy, Blaine Luetkemeyer,
Collin Peterson, Adrian Smith, Jason Smith, Pete Stauber, Ann Wagner.
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