government shutdown

Walz announces $4 million for state food shelves
November 05, 2025
Gov. Tim Walz last week announced $4 million in new funding for Minnesota food shelves. Funding will provide relief as 440,000 Minnesotans lost grocery benefits through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Minesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) beginning Nov. 1. Amid the federal government shutdown, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it will not…
Water tower construction continues during federal government shutdown
By Mavis Fodness
October 29, 2025
A $3.47 million construction project for a 500,000-gallon water tower in Clinton Township will continue, despite federal funds frozen by the government shutdown. Rock County commissioners approved withdrawing up to $1.2 million from the Rock County Rural Water allocation account. Those funds will be repaid once federal government reopens and the $3.09 million USDA grant for the water tower is…
Government shutdown harms families, businesses and agencies across the country
By By Rev. Tim Olsen, Luverne, on behalf of Rev. Jessica Moerman and Lindsay Garcia, with the Evangelical Environmental Network
October 22, 2025
We’re now into our fourth week of a federal government shutdown since Congress failed to approve a resolution for government funding. In preparation for this shutdown, the White House Office of Management and Budget instructed agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans, adding potentially permanent layoffs to the long list of negative shutdown consequences. Congress’s inability to pass…
Extended federal shutdown impacts farming operations
By Kent Thiesse, Farm Management Analyst
October 08, 2025
A partial shutdown of the U.S. government began on Oct. 1, with no indications regarding how long that shutdown may last. Most farmers in the Midwest are in the middle of harvest season, so there has probably not been a lot of attention paid to the government shutdown to this point. However, if the shutdown continues for several more weeks, it could start to impact financial decisions for…
First open the government, then implement the new Farm Bill
By U.S. Sen. Tina Smith
January 15, 2019
It’s no secret that farmers in Minnesota and across the country have been rocked by low crop and dairy prices, and a crippling trade war that has blocked billions of dollars in sales of U.S. farm products abroad. So, the last thing our farm economy needs as we move into the new year is to have the federal government shut down. For me, job one in the new Congress is to end this wasteful and…

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