Tag: Sonny Perdue
How did Sonny Perdue buy a soybean processing plant for $250,000?
Alan Guebert digs into the sale of an aging soybean processing plant in Estill, South Carolina, to former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
Troubled USDA food box program canceled
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box program launched last spring at the height of the pandemic with the best of intentions, but things went awry almost as soon as the program began. The program will end in May, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week.
USDA food boxes fall short in southern Ohio
The Farmers to Families Food Box program was supposed to fill gaps in the food supply chain. Instead, in some areas, it's created more headaches.
Farmers to Families Food Box distribution brings Perdue to Pennsylvania
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue visited western Pennsylvania to lend a hand with the Farmers to Families Food Box distribution.
Dear Sonny, dear Sonny, we need your help
State officials, ag commodity groups and others want a piece of the $9.5 billion pie Sonny Perdue is set to dish out as part of federal coronavirus relief.
USDA issues second round of payments
Sonny Perdue announced the second tranche of 2019 Market Facilitation Program payments to assist farmers suffering from damage due to trade retaliation.
Should we let sleeping dogs lie?
Alan Guebert shares his thoughts on the proposed SNAP cuts that could drop 500,000 children from the free school lunch program amid farmers' aid payments.
It’s going to be a long, hot summer…
Alan Guebert digs into recent the recent actions of President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
The bum’s rush, courtesy of USDA
According to Alan Guebert, Sonny Perdue doesn't need to hit the road this summer to find more than enough messy problems to keep him busy through harvest.
Welcome to paradise, er, paradox
According to Alan Guebert, there's a paradox occurring in today's commodity and financial markets. He sheds some light on it in his column this week.
