Ag groups are weighing in on USDA’s suspension of livestock imports from Mexico due to new world screwworm.
The ban is set to stay in place month-to-month until there is progress on containing the pest.
Alan Bjerga with the National Milk Producers Federation spoke with RFD-TV’s Suzanne Alexander about the impact to dairy cattle in the United States, long-term effects, and what to expect as we move forward.
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“We have to... preserve these rural hospitals, and they were closing at an epidemic rate.”
“She has a plan and that plan is to support our farmers.”
“It’s a falsehood to call beef from another country ‘Product of the USA.’”
“When you’re a small family farm, security is often an afterthought, if a thought at all.”