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U.S. Must Continue Pressing for Fair Trade with Mexico

U.S. Must Continue Pressing for Fair Trade with Mexico

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack’s meeting with President Lopez Obrador on Mexico’s biotechnology import ban.

“The United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement is important for America’s farm economy, making Secretary Vilsack’s meeting with President Obrador of Mexico critically important. America’s farmers are deeply concerned with President Obrador’s decree to phase out the importation of biotech corn and agriculture products. This import ban will only hurt the people of Mexico, and America’s farmers, who are dedicated to growing safe and affordable food for families on both sides of the border.

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OFA takes farmers’ priorities to Queen’s Park

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We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you’re gonna wanna hear.