Both of Georgia’s U.S. Senators are working to have the state’s farmers get a bit of a boost from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock announced Wednesday that they were urging the USDA to put more of a promotional effort into trade agreements that feature exports of pecans.
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To make that happen, the senators are asking the USDA to provide adequate promotional resources for Georgia farmers to market their pecans.
Both senators are asking the USDA to use funding from the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, or RAPP, which is supposed to help increase U.S. exports to new markets, but said that only a small allocation of the funds had been earmarked for pecan promotion.
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