As flooding comes to an end across Kansas and with trade issues still roiling the state’s agriculture economy, US Senator Jerry Moran is pleading with fellow federal lawmakers to pass a disaster relief plan.
Moran says recent tours of Kansas let him see farm ground that can’t be used as intended until further notice, meaning delays in planting at a time when tariffs are reducing US access to foreign markets. He wants action to fund the Emergency Conservation Program.
Moran also wants to amend the current disaster plan so it covers costs of loss-stored grain. He says farmers have more grain in storage than normal, and when that is wiped out by floods, that has a similar impact to draining a family savings account of its cash. He says disaster programs don’t have enough money or resources available to help producers who have lost up to a year’s worth of income when stored grain is damaged or destroyed, and he called on Congress to change that with an updated disaster bill.
Moran is a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture.
