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Farmers To Get Financial Assistance To Offset Drought Effects

(Salem, OR) -- Oregon farmers will get financial assistance from the state to help offset the effects of the drought. The special session of the Oregon Legislature has approved 100-million dollars to support farmers and irrigators. Forty-million dollars will help fill gaps in federal disaster relief. Twelve-million dollars will go to the Klamath Basin to help with wells and irrigation. Additional funds will help the Klamath Tribes, agricultural workers who miss jobs because of heat or wildfire smoke and other impacts from the drought.

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