WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Bill offered by MS Senators to aid farmers
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(WLBT) - Relief could be on its way to farmers who have lost crops to a very rainy fall. The excessive rains prompted Mississippi's U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker to introduce a bill that offers disaster assistance to those farmers throughout the nation.
In Mississippi, 79 of 82 counties have been designated primary disaster areas by the USDA.
Agriculture economists at Mississippi State University estimate crop losses are nearing $485 million dollars, with losses exceeding 30% of the state's overall crop value. The cost of the disaster assistance legislation is just over $2 billion dollars.
The bill also provides $150 million dollars in assistance to livestock producers adversely affected by weather-related disaster.
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