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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