What's your position on taking legislative action to help drought-stricken farmers in 2012?
Secretary Vilsack raised the question yesterday, suggesting Congress needed to act.
[Updated: via Obama Foodorama here's the briefing today at the White House--Vilsack is focusing on livestock producers. Back in the day we used to have the Livestock Feed Program for these sorts of situations but I guess it got cut.]
[Update II: Got around to doing what I should have done--check the FSA webpage. Apparently the old LFP got reauthorized under different titles and in different forms, but the authorities in the 2008 farm legislation expired Oct 2011. ]
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