Help for farmers

Posted on August 23, 2019

Wednesday’s Kiwanis meeting featured Florida Congressman Neal Dunn of the Second District, who spoke to Kiwanis members and guests regarding important state issues such as emergency disaster relief and forestry and agriculture crop insurance.

“It is bad to lose a year of peanuts, but it is really bad to lose 20 years of trees, and that is an important issue here in the Big Bend area,” Dunn said of his recently-passed Farm and Food Bill. “With this bill, our farmers now have some certainty during times of recession and loss; they know that the United States will continue to have a strong and robust agricultural economy.”

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