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Mike Rogers: “China can produce more food. I know they're in the apple…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Mike Rogers roundtable with Michigan farmers in Hudsonville

Published | Video Starts at 27:26

Then you got to compete like everyone else, but at least it gives you a fighting chance to do it. I just worry that the world's doing this not necessarily by accident. You know, when China can produce more food. I know they're in the apple market out west. They're causing real problems for us, for our farmers here domestically, and we know it's subsidized. My argument is, if that's the case, then we have to find some way to level that flame. I think it could work. I had, when I did it candidly, I was doing it for manufacturing. (27:26–27:36)

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Asserts that China is causing problems in the U.S. apple market through subsidized production.

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