A Small Business Administration official urges farmers to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program through their local lenders.

Tom Salisbury is SBA regional administrator for Region 7 which includes Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri. He says, “You can walk into your local bank that you deal with, that you bank at for the last however many years, and you know the people there. And that’s the people you’re going to be dealing with so you’re not dealing with a stranger in California or something like that.”

Salisbury says a lot of Missouri farmers have been caught in

an especially tight spot, “Here in Missouri, you had some flooding up north

that affected some of them last year and then they turn around and you’re in a

pandemic.

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