$24 billion USDA pandemic relief program failed to help most farmers
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Peter and Carol Sepe pose at Sepe Farm in Newtown, Conn., on Wednesday April 14, 2021. Peter is president of the Fairfield County Farm Bureau, and is one of the few farmers in the state who did benefit from the USDA pandemic relief program.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
WASHINGTON When the pandemic struck, Cricket Jacquier had 1200 cows to milk a day but his usual milk buyers were gone.
Widespread closures of schools and restaurants slammed the dairy industry hard, forcing some producers to have to dump perishable milk that suddenly had no market. But for Jacquier, a farmer in East Canaan, Conn., help swiftly arrived.
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