Within the last month, USDA has opened the Conservation Reserve Program to emergency haying and grazing, has lowered the borrower interest rate for emergency loans, and has called on crop insurance companies to provide more flexibility to farmers.

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The USDA has also reduced interest rates on its emergency loan program and worked with the major crop insurers to allow farmers to forego interest payments on unpaid premiums until November.

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And for those who can't bring in a sellable crop at all, there's always that old standby: federal emergency assistance for farmers who lose their crops to some unkindness of nature.

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