US Government Shutdown Casts Shadow Over Promising Harvest

美国政府关闭为粮食丰收带来阴影

Published October 16, 2013

此视频发布于2013年10月16日

Just one year after a catastrophic drought damaged vast areas of farmland in the Midwestern United States, farmers heading to the fields to harvest one of the best crop yields in years have been dealing with another obstacle - the partial shutdown of the U.S. Government. As VOA's Kane Farabaugh reports from Polo, Illinois, the shutdown has had a ripple effect, affecting everything from subsidies to loans to the price of grains and meat that farmers are trying to sell.

就在美国中西部遭受了大片地区的干旱的一年后，农民们都奔向耕田准备迎接近些年来之不易的丰收，然而，这却遭到了另一个障碍——美国政府的临时关闭B#r_yeVz[c8&h;y0V7。美国之声记者凯恩·法拉博从伊利诺斯州的保罗带回报道，美国政府的关闭引起了连锁反应，几乎影响了一切，从补助到贷款，从粮食价格到农民去努力出售的肉类的价格0C#qK&d2)P69=jF|。