USDA announced a bold plan this week to protect American agriculture from foreign threats. The National Farm Security Action Plan is an effort to keep adversaries like China from scooping up our farms.
Senator Roger Marshall spoke with RFD-TV’s Tammi Arender about the importance of this plan, retaliatory ripple effects, and the outlook for the “Skinny” Farm Bill.
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National Farmers Union President Rob Larew and National Potato Council CEO Kam Quarles discuss the Senate Farm Bill, farm safety-net priorities, supplemental aid, year-round E15, support for specialty crops, and federal agricultural policy.
National Pork Producers Council’s Trish Cook joins us to discuss Farm Bill differences between chambers, Prop 12 concerns, and pork industry priorities moving forward.