Summer shower of federal cash to follow rainy spring in Farm Belt

Farmers can expect a deluge of federal payments in the weeks ahead to cushion the effect of farm exports lost to the trade war and crops washed away by the rainiest spring in a quarter-century, say analysts. “It’s probably going to be August” when the biggest shower of payments begins, the multibillion-dollar, stop-gap Market Facilitation… » Read More

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