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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- There's a caller hazard for the Ag industry.
"You'll ne'er spot maine gambling successful sports due to the fact that it's what I bash each time for work. In agriculture, you're gambling," Fresno County Farmer Steven Cardoza said.
As President Donald Trump pushes guardant with his monolithic overhaul of the national government, determination is presently a frost connected galore programs that supply assistance wealth to farmers.
"They're doing what they said they were going to do. There is radical that are going to person trouble done the modulation and I consciousness for them, that's unfortunate," Cardoza said.
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Cardoza is an integrated raisin grape grower successful Fresno County. His farming signifier is regenerative, utilizing climate-smart exertion for his astir 400-acres of vines.
Grants person helped him wage for drip watering systems and caller tractors.
He says he's waiting for reimbursement of astir $100,000 successful assistance money, presently connected intermission arsenic the Trump medication reviews programs.
But he's not holding that against the President.
"If farmers similar myself person to woody with having regularisation connected funds disposable to us, if the extremity effect is simply a nett affirmative for the state past I'm blessed to instrumentality a mates bruises if it's what's champion for everyone," Cardoza said.
Cardoza says helium does not afloat trust upon grants to tally his business, we asked him astir farmers who do.
"That's unsmooth and similar I said I consciousness for those radical who were counting connected that assistance wealth and it's present caused a fiscal precarious concern for them to beryllium in, that's difficult," helium said.
For now, Cardoza is consenting to rotation the dice.
"Part of our relation arsenic stewards of the onshore is to beryllium prepared for immoderate catastrophic lawsuit whether it's by Mother Nature oregon successful this lawsuit it's by DOGE," Cardoza said.
We reached retired to some Democratic Congressman Jim Costa and Republican Congressman David Valadao for their thoughts connected the farming grants reimbursement freeze.
Costa said $1.8 cardinal successful backing is being held from farmers successful his territory unsocial and he's moving connected a bipartisan attack to enactment connected Ag issues.
Valadao, instead, pointed the digit astatine the past administration, saying helium and different farmers person faced years of vexation waiting for catastrophe assistance and infrastructure improvements.
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