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Chris Petersen looks at a Berkshire hog in a pen on his farm on April 17, 2020, near Clear Lake, Iowa. COVID-19 has created problems for all meat producers, but pork farmers have been hit especially hard. The federal government announced Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, a program that will provide $1.3 billion in debt relief for about 36,000 farmers who have fallen behind on loan payments or face foreclosure.
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The money is the first round of payments designed to help insure the farmers stay in business or re-enter farming.
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The infected man had been in a pre-release program and was helping to remove chickens from an infected farm.
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Bird Flu Drives Free-Range Hens Indoors
Free-range egg producers are trying to be open about their product while protecting chickens.
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Iowa operations have had to kill 18 million chickens since the epidemic began.
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Officials in Iowa announced two more bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks.
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Another Iowa Ag-Gag Law Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge
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Poultry Farm Struggle to Safeguard Birds from Flu as Outbreak Spreads
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A flock of young turkeys stand in a barn at the Moline family turkey farm after the Mason, Iowa farm was restocked on Aug. 10, 2015.
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The 29,000 turkeys in the flock were killed to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Federal Watchdog: Under Trump, USDA Overpaid Corn Farmers by $3B
The Government Accountability Office said the USDA's way of computing the extent of tariffs-based damages to farmers was flawed.
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Iowa's Supreme Court Stops Lawsuit Over Farm Runoff Pollution
It is the latest court rejection of an attempt to force the nation's leading corn and pork producing state to clean up farm pollutants from.
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