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Tom Vilsack: “There is somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000, 12,000 producers that will probably not get the financial support”

On the recordMarch 4, 2013
There is somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000, 12,000 producers that will probably not get the financial support
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Tom Vilsack
Democratic · Iowa

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Vilsack highlights the reduction in financial support for producers due to sequestration.

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