Over the course of the next several weeks and months, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says the agency will be working on figuring out the best way to approach the issue of how to help economically distressed farmers maintain and keep their farming operations and also how USDA might be able to continue the effort that has been underway for a number of years in compensating farmers for aspects of discrimination.
“We have work to do for example in assisting economically distressed farmers, ranchers and producers stay on the land and in farming with debt relief offered under the…
