An agreement wasn’t reached on a new COVID-19 relief package last week so negotiations will continue this week. When it comes to agriculture, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar says there are a few hang-ups in the Senate’s bill: differing views on nutrition programs, the overall cost and the flexibility given to the USDA in implementation. “My problem with what Senate Republicans have proposed is it gives so much discretion to the USDA. I’m afraid that money won’t go to our state and they won’t account for our needs,” she says. “The perfect example is in the last funding amount, the USDA used payments to help some classes of wheat, but they excluded others grown in Minnesota.”
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