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Mike Rogers: “So I heard another story up on cherry farmers, that Turkey…”

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 20:40

So it's cost and position. It's inspectors, of course, artificially high energy rates. I believe our energy rights don't yet. Have death by thousand energies. So I heard another story up on cherry farmers, that Turkey and China were shipping cherries to Brazil. Brazil sprinkles a little water on them. Their process that brings them into the United States. They don't grow any cherries, and they can do it at a price that makes our cherry producers not competitive. So to me, that's an enforcement issue. Like, why aren't we enforcing kind of the current law? I mean, is anyone else running into something like. (20:40–21:03)

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Asserts that Turkey and China ship cherries to Brazil, which then reprocesses and exports them to the U.S. at a lower price, harming U.S. cherry producers.

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