US Government Shutdown Casts Shadow Over Promising Harvest

美國政府關閉為糧食豐收帶來陰影

Published October 16, 2013

此視頻發布于2013年10月16日

Just one year after a catastrophic drought damaged vast areas of farmland in the Midwestern United States, farmers heading to the fields to harvest one of the best crop yields in years have been dealing with another obstacle - the partial shutdown of the U.S. Government. As VOA's Kane Farabaugh reports from Polo, Illinois, the shutdown has had a ripple effect, affecting everything from subsidies to loans to the price of grains and meat that farmers are trying to sell.

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