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These bridge payments, as the administration is calling them, are meant to offset the effects of the president's trade war and tariffs that have left American soybeans here in the bins and not exported to China.
The aid is expected to arrive by early March, but farmers like John Kipley say they need the money right now.
Kipley says banks won't lend because they know farmers will still be in the red next season.
One estimate at a Farmers Union conference here showed that's the case for close to half of all the farms in South Dakota, where many family farms without capital could soon be out of business.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Huron, South Dakota.
Farmers have been ramping up the pressure on the White House after the harvest.
Millions of tons of soybeans are sitting in bins across the Midwest since China has been buying instead from Brazil amid a heated trade war.
At the president's cabinet meeting, Ag Secretary Brooke Rawlins told Trump that next week she'll announce, quote, bridge payments to farmers to keep them afloat as trade negotiations continue.
The White House says China has committed to buying 12 million tons of soybeans this year.
That's less than half of what they bought last year.
Whitefish Mountain Resort is about 60 miles from the Montana-British-Columbia border and historically upwards of a quarter of its guests have been Canadian.
Canadian crossings at the border have dropped precipitously since President Trump levied tariffs and said Canada should become the 51st state.
Resort spokesman Chad Sokol says it hasn't had a huge effect locally yet.
Ski resorts aren't sure what to expect going into this season, but many, like Whitefish, have seen a spike in domestic travel lately, which is offsetting the drop in international visitors.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Whitefish, Montana.
Thousands of furloughed National Park Service employees are now returning to work after the 43-day shutdown.
Many entrance gates at parks remained open but unstaffed.
One estimate by watchdog groups predicts the service may have lost upwards of $40 million in entrance fee revenue.