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Brooke Rollins: “On average, what we inherited was a 50% input cost.”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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USDA Secretary Blames Biden Administration for High Grocery Prices

Published | Video Starts at 01:50

Well, again, the cost of fertilizer was up almost 100% in the. In what we inherited. The cost of doing business, on average, I won't go through all the numbers. We don't have time. But On average, what we inherited was a 50% input cost. So working, we brought all of that down. As to the farmer equipment, I think the President is very focused on what can we do to get our farmers to profitability. (01:50–01:54)

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Asserts that input costs were 50% higher when the current administration took over.

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