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Published May 30, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:39

So I am honored to be on the stage with you, Maria. I just. I just am so grateful. Thank you. … Inputs [for agriculture] went up 40%, the markets around the world closed [during the Biden years]. … Farm security is national security, right? If we can't feed ourselves and fuel ourselves, we will no longer understand what freedom looks like or tastes like. (01:39–01:41)

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Asserts that agricultural inputs increased by 40% and global markets closed during the Biden administration.

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“Eight or nine out of every ten farmers in America are not profitable.”
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“In 1983, China owned about 2,000 acres of American farmland. Today they own almost 300,000 acres of American farmland.”
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“They also own Syngenta, which is a seed fertilizer input company. They also own Smithfield, which controls a fifth to a fourth of our pork…”
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“At USDA we've let 20,000 employees go. We went from 100,000 employees to, to 80,000 in just a matter of months.”
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“Two Brazilian companies own two of our biggest beef processing plants, and two American companies, Cargill, Tyson, but alongside these two…”
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“Brazil overtook American cotton in 2023.”
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“In one year, we now have 24 new trade deals.”
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“Today we produce 10% [of our own citrus].”
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“The USDA, U.S. department of Agriculture, my organization, spends $400 million every day on nutrition programs SNAP, which is food stamps…”
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“We inherited the trade deficit after leaving a trade surplus.”
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“We inherited a 40% increase in inputs for our farmers.”
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“We have offshored our supply chains in agriculture and food.”
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“Foreign interests, including foreign adversaries like China, I would argue Brazil and others, to buy up a lot of our agriculture in America.”
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“The Strait of Hormuz, obviously, the Iranian conflict certainly caused some disruption in fertilizer.”
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“Our farmers once again are seeing a 30 to 40% increase [in fertilizer costs].”
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“That was on top of a 50 to 60 to 70% increase in the Biden years for a lot of reasons.”
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“20, 30 years ago, we produced almost all of our own fertilizer in America.”
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“As of today, 50% of the fertilizer that we use in our country we have to get from China or Russia or other countries.”
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“I announced the largest ammonia plant in the world will break ground in less than 30 days.”
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“Fertilizer will come down immediately. Fuel is going to come down immediately.”
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“We have built the infrastructure, what I believe for generational prosperity, very similar to Ronald Reagan back in the 80s.”
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“A lot of that farmland is actually around military bases.”
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“Agriculture has never even been on the CFIUS committee, which is the committee that reviews foreign investment, until this year.”
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“We've lost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of family farms.”
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“You can deregulate, you can drain the swamp, you can return power to the people, you can light an economy on fire and have the lowest…”
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“Drafting 300 executive orders in 2023 and 2024 in case our side did win again, having 196 agency plans ready for day one.”
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“We have significantly more resources in the bank, thanks to probably many of you in this room who have answered the call to give, to the…”
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“Only about 1 of every 10 farms is profitable today without the government propping up.”
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“The Biden administration had not one new trade deal, not one in four years.”
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“Three out of four of our kids, y', all, this is a military readiness issue as well.”
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“Potatoes have not been profitable on their own that it will increase the profitability by $2,000 an acre.”
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“The President has done [work that] completely opened these markets up for the first time.”
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“The Chinese commitment to buy...an additional 17 billion in agricultural products from America.”
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“We're selling American beef into Australia for the first time.”
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“We're selling rice into China for the first time.”
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“We're getting so many of our commodities into Europe for the first time.”
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“Someone said that the average age of our cabinet is 54 and that's about 18 to 20 years younger than including Trump, one than what the…”
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“Only a third of Americans even wanted to declare revolution, right? A third were very happy with the way things were, the status quo, and a…”
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