I think that when the president announced to me November 23rd, I was sworn in February 13th, one of the single biggest priorities almost from the first minute the president called me about this job was that For decades now we have been offshoring our food and we for whatever reason had really lost sight of the fact that the food industry, food supply is consolidating a lot of foreign interests. Foreign adversaries are buying in, they're buying our farmland. We're losing, especially that small and mid sized family farm, almost 150,000 over the last 15 years. I mean these are unsustainable numbers. (01:05–01:19)
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