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Brooke Rollins: “We have lost over 140,000 family farms in just the last few…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 07:41

And there's no doubt that right now, American agriculture, your way of life, is under threat. The previous administration failed policies and failed leadership crushed our family farms. According to the latest USDA Census of Agriculture, We have lost over 140,000 family farms in just the last few years. The last administration, and the one prior to the first time we were in with Trump, basically hollowed out our heartland, our factories and our farms we had. (07:41–07:47)

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