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Despite the government shutdown, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) will be able to keep their doors open through February.

The US Department of Agriculture, which helps to fund WIC, SNAP, and other child nutrition programs, has found additional funds to help keep these programs up and running through February should the shutdown continue. 

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Farmers around the country will have to adjust to the government shutdown with the delay of farm reports.

The US Department of Agriculture had planned to release the reports on Friday. Those include crop totals for 2018 and an early estimate of what farmers will plant in the upcoming season.