Farmers & Ranchers

Farmers in Vermont and the organizations that serve them are having their livelihoods threatened by the failure of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to honor contracts it signed to pay back farmers for money they are owed, according to Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont. Welch joined with Sen.…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) introduced the Emergency Loans Reform Act of 2024, legislation to reform the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Emergency Loan Program to remove barriers to emergency…