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Brooke Rollins: “Ethanol up 11% in exports over 2025 through 2025.”

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins Addresses the 2026 American Farm Bureau Convention

Published January 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 11:58

I know we're in California with a lot of specialty crop producers. I'm going to talk about that a little bit today as well. But tree nut export were up 11% over the last year. Ethanol up 11% in exports over 2025 through 2025. Dairy exports, I mean dairy farmers out there got a lot of good news in dairy, we're up 15% over 2025. And corn exports, any corn farmers out there? (11:58–12:05)

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