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Mike Rogers: “You mentioned earlier, I thought this was a very interesting…”

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 09:23

It's like we just need to get rid of all these regulations and figure out how we're going to self help societies. These wage high wages that are not returning back to the farms. You'll see some doors closing. Yeah. You mentioned earlier, I thought this was a very interesting point, that we didn't have enough USDA inspectors, but they sent five labor agents to your farm during harvest and took you away from your farm for four or five days. That's true. The government has a great USDA food purchase programs, and a lot of commodities are sold to the school lunches and prisons and all that. (09:23–09:37)

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Asserts that there is a shortage of USDA inspectors but an excess of labor agents.

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