Ag policy expert: ad-hoc farm aid payments ignore deeper problems in agriculture

An associate professor of ag policy at the University of Illinois says more ad-hoc assistance from the Trump administration or Congress isn’t addressing the bigger problems facing agriculture. “It’s merely an attempt to kind of bridge over the problems and I guess hope they don’t continue.” Jonathan Coppess says the U.S. should be finding ways […]

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