American Rescue Plan and Agriculture

President Joe Biden's stimulus relief package includes more than ten billion dollars for farmers in need.

Ne's 1's kourtney williams spoke with a local farmers market about the impact of this stimulus package the covid 19 pandemic has taken i's toll on everyone, especially farmers.but good news--the presiden's latest stimulus package is sets aside more money for agriculture to help.

The concern has mostly been on how restaurants will survive the pandemic...but i checked in with a local 3 farme's market to see the impact i's had on them and surprisingly it was't too bad.

Soteverybody was forced to eat at home and had to start cooking so with that there was an influx in groceries and grocery shopping and people felt a little bit safer over here as i's 3 completely open with no walls and doorsten point four billion dollars of the american rescue plan will support agriculture and about half will go towards disadvantaged farmers.

The american farm bureau reported about a quarter of disadvantaged farmers are black.farachi tel's me giving back to the community and local farmers is important... especially during these timessotdiscarded produce we give back to any local farmers that need to feed their livestock so with that w've been in the community for about 25 years in this location and we just like to have low prices to keep everybody eating healthy while the president has made an effort to support farmers...many of them have taken action into their own hands by supporting one another in different wayssot one thing we do real big over here is like i was talking about we have a lot of local vendors probably over fifty or sixty and we pick up as many as we can so that they do't get lost in the super stores farmers around the nation are continuing to do everything they can to prevent the coronavirus crisis from becoming a hunger crisis.

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