Sonny Perdue emerged Friday in the role of helping to shift $3 billion of the nation’s food supply to food banks and similar facilities before farmers destroy the food because they can’t afford to get it to market. The $19 billion relief program includes $16 billion in direct aid for farmers.
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Emergency fund set up to help Georgia’s urban and rural farmers
Local food organizations have created a coalition to help Georgia’s urban and rural farmers weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ag report: Rain helped ‘settle some dust, but it came too late to help the crop any’
Recent rains were too little, too late and came at the wrong time to help Georgia’s cotton and peanut farmers, but winter grains crops will benefit. The drought maps that have become so commonplace don’t specifically address weather effects on the state’s agriculture industry.
