After yearslong delays, farm bill scheduled for vote in Congress this week
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said a new farm bill will help Wisconsin farmers.
Speaking to the press after the event, Rollins highlighted President Donald Trump’s support for whole milk, including his signing of legislation to add whole milk back to the National School Lunch Program.
She also pointed to new trade deals negotiated by the Trump administration that she claimed will open up export opportunities for U.S. agricultural products. But Rollins did acknowledge the negative impact retaliatory tariffs have had on Wisconsin cranberry growers.
Rollins voiced her support for the farm bill, a package of agriculture- and food-related legislations expected to get a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week. She pointed out that several major programs like crop insurance were previously updated in last year’s reconciliation bill.
“What this current farm bill represents is the addition: what we need to do to strengthen crop insurance, what we need to do to make sure we have the right labor rules on the ground so that our farmers can actually have labor that can work year round, things like that,” Rollins said.
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