ICYMI: Rep. TJ Cox Questions Ag Sec Perdue on Staffing Challenges at USDA, Undoing Damage from Tariffs
Yesterday, Rep. TJ Cox questioned Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on two major issues facing farmers and ranchers in the Central Valley.
Farmers haven’t been getting key trade adjustment payments owed to them, paid by the federal government as an important but inadequate response to the U.S.-China trade war that blew up key trade relationships needed to keep the Central Valley moving.
Rep. Cox zeroed in on a lack of staffing in Farm Service Agency offices as a cause for farmers not receiving timely payments.
Cox also asked the Secretary how the administration intends to help farmers reestablish trade relationships, built over years by hard working Central Valley producers, after the administration established misguided tariffs, setting off a trade war between the United States and some of the top buyers of produce from the San Joaquin Valley.
