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Missouri farmer has shutdown concerns

A northwest Missouri farmer says the partial government shutdown has impacted all farmers and he’s worried about prevent planting programs.

Richard Oswald days the wet weather is preventing fertilizer application and planting is less than three months away, “Farm program sign up needs to get going because we could have prevented planting situations and things like that and we’d need the government, the FSA, to be there for us.”

The USDA, this afternoon, announced the reopening of all Farm Service Agency offices starting next Monday for two consecutive weeks, then tapering off after that.

Oswald, who farms in Atchison County, escaped the drought last fall and suffered with too wet conditions into the new year. He got his final 500 acres of corn and soybeans harvested two weeks ago.

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