“Over the last four or five years, we have lost almost 180,000 family farms… If we’re going to save America, we have to save our farmers.” says Secretary Rollins.
“The President’s vision of the Big Beautiful Bill — this was the vision he cast over the last few years on returning power to the people, bringing more prosperity into every corner of America. Obviously, in the agriculture sector, as the Secretary of Ag, this is of vital importance. Over the last four or five years, we’ve lost almost 180,000 family farms. China has been buying up our farmland. We have to make a change. If we’re going to save America, we have to save our farmers. So this bill takes a giant leap in that direction.”
“And you mentioned, and you had the people talking about the big cuts on one side. Well, part of those big cuts will include the food stamp program, which is a USDA program. So almost $280 billion, I think, is the latest number over ten years. But we spend $400 million a day just on food stamps in this country. So, figuring out how to be more efficient and more cost-effective while at the same time shifting some of those dollars over to the farmers and the ranchers, whether it is protecting two million of our family farms from the inheritance or the death tax; that’s going to be vital to keeping these farms and these ranches in the family. Increasing, through tax cuts, to our farmers — perhaps the ultimate small business owners — by $10 billion and increasing reference prices, which have not been increased in over a decade, which is how we manage the ag commodities system, how we move food out into the country and across the world, reflecting current-day market demands. Since no Farm Bill was able to be passed in the last Biden administration, those are just three quick things, but those will be huge for our farmers and our ranchers and ensuring that we’re able to reverse that trend of family farms going out of business.”