In a wide variety of ways, USDA affects and influences producers of grains, oilseeds, livestock, poultry and eggs, cotton, wool, sugar, fruits, vegetables, nuts, forestry products and horticulture. USDA affects those that handle, transport, process, export, import and use or consume any of these products or anything made from them. It affects the financial institutions that provide financing for producers and those involved at any point up to the final consumer. USDA may be largely invisible to the general public, but in a multitude of ways ranging from national forests to food stamps, school lunches and more, it is a part of everyone's life.We are now into the third day of the government shutdown caused by the failure of the Republican-c...

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