Statewide Iowa — Some livestock producers in Iowa saw little or no financial aid during the latest round of federal COVID-19 relief payments. The Iowa Cattlemen’s Association is sending a letter to U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding payment limitations.
Cora Fox, the association’s director of government relations, says the U-S-D-A was slow in putting out additional COVID payments intended for cattle producers and put a limit on them.
The Cattlemen’s Association said in the letter that it wants the agency to know the payment limitations don’t fit what Congress intended.
Fox says there are many Iowa cattle producers who experienced significant losses and were denied pandemic funds, while others, who had minimal losses, were paid in full.
She says several feeder cattle operators who are struggling were completely left out of the aid due to the U-S-D-A-imposed payment limitations.
