State Ag Leaders Trying to Help Farmers
Thursday, August 15th, 2019 -- 10:45 AM
(WRN) -State agricultural leaders are looking to help farmers after China announced a full stoppage of agricultural imports.State agricultural leaders are looking to help farmers after China announced a full stoppage of agricultural imports. Wisconsin Soybean Association director Bob Karls says he and his colleagues are already hard at work in the halls of Congress.
"Our legislators, our elected congresspersons and senators know the issues this causes us, they have talked to the administration."
Karls says farmers are worried, and need to talk with each other.
"We are concerned for some farmers that are having some stresses, and encourage them to talk to people. Mental health is far more important."
Karls says they're trying to fix that, but they aren't hopeful right now.
"There's just many angles, and we don't see it improving. We see things more or less going the opposite direction."
He says one bright side this season is that there's expected to be a strong harvest, which means plenty of product coming this fall.
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