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Elissa Slotkin: “Michigan's second biggest industry is agriculture.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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First, on economic issues, we actually have two today. I just finished 10 days back home in Michigan and I thought there were two issues that were worth mentioning. First, agriculture. Michigan's second biggest industry is agriculture. and we are a specialty crop state. We do. We have a lot of small and medium sized farms that do a lot of specialty crops and none is a bigger symbol of our specialty crops than cherries, particularly tart cherries. (00:30–00:33)

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Asserts that agriculture is Michigan's second largest industry.

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