Sumter not among area FSA offices reopening amid shutdown

Farmers who grow commodity crops feeling impact from lack of USDA services

BY KAYLA ROBINS
kayla@theitem.com
Posted 1/17/19

Three weeks after federal funding lapsed in nine of the government's 15 departments over a political stalemate about a $5.6 billion border wall separating the United States from Central America, farmers are feeling the effects.

U.S. Secretary of …

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