USDA Continues Outreach Efforts to Women and Hispanic Farmers

Randall Weiseman July 24, 2011 General

Fred Pfaeffle, USDA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, wants to remind Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who feel that may have been discriminated against in the past about options available to them for compensation.

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