Assessing the new national policy on farm security

Brooke Rollins apparently heard that I gave her debut as secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture a mixed bag. No sooner was the column published than she dropped her strategic plan for the department: the National Farm Security Plan. (Fine, maybe my assessment wasn’t the entire reason why …) The NFSP is a spin on President Donald […] The post Assessing the new national policy on farm security appeared first on The Farmer's Daughter USA.

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Assessing the new national policy on farm security

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Brooke Rollins apparently heard that I gave her debut as secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture a mixed bag. No sooner was the column published than she dropped her strategic plan for the department: the National Farm Security Plan. (Fine, maybe my assessment wasn’t the entire reason why …)

The NFSP is a spin on President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda that equates farm security with national security. The concept isn’t so far-fetched. If a country can’t feed and fuel itself, it can’t keep and protect itself.

So what kind of policy supports agriculture security? Rollins sets it out in seven priorities. Let’s delve in.

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