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Brooke Rollins: “We've had almost 17% of our producers close, which is about…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:18

Is that feasible? And why. What happened to beef prices? How do we bring them down? Well, we have had a massive run on beef over the last decade. We've had almost 17% of our producers close, which is about our ranchers, which is about 150,000 ranchers have now stopped ranching. It's a whole other show. We need to describe that. But basically there's been a massive consolidation which has not been good for our ranching industry. (07:18–07:26)

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Asserts that 17% of ranchers, approximately 150,000, have stopped ranching.

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