D.C. Policy

For rural borrowers, freeing up community-bank balance sheets could mean steadier home loans, operating lines, and ag real-estate financing as winter planning ramps up.
RFD-TV had the chance to sit down with Brooke Rollins only 24 hours after her confirmation to talk about her main priorities and how she wants to take USDA back to its original intent.
The Department of Agriculture officially has a new leader, and she is the second female Agriculture Secretary in history. Let’s find out what Brooke Rollins did on day one at the USDA.
“If this workforce gets even tighter and tighter, you know, it’s going to drive some folks out of production.”
“It really hamstrings our availability of financing to get loans when everything is costing 30-60% more.”
“It doesn’t matter what we do in Canada or the United States, it’s not going to help the monarch population.”