Agriculture secretary says Trump administration goals to assist on workforce
HENDRY COUNTY, Fla. — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins signed a $675.9 million block grant settlement with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services on Monday in Hendry County.
Rollins mentioned the USDA-FDACS settlement goals to assist farmers to get well from Hurricanes Idalia, Debby, Helene and Milton and canopy the price of infrastructure and citrus and timber losses.
“America’s farmers and ranchers throughout the Southeast and in Florida have been hit exhausting,” Rollins mentioned throughout her go to to CPI Planting.
The funding comes from the $30 billion catastrophe help reduction effort approved by the American Aid Act.
Wilton Simpson, Florida’s agriculture commissioner, mentioned the state’s farmers, ranchers, and growers have endured back-to-back devastating hurricane seasons.
“This funding is a significant victory that can assist them rebuild, get well, and proceed feeding our state and nation,” Simpson mentioned.
The trade was additionally feeling the impression of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem’s ongoing push for deportations of undocumented migrants.
President Donald Trump’s current promise to assist farmers: “We’re going to situation a type of a card or doc and the farmers are going to be answerable for these folks, they don’t seem to be going to have residents but, however they are going to be working, they’ll be paying taxes.
Rollins mentioned there gained’t be any amnesty for undocumented migrants within the U.S.
“I believe that’s very, essential,” Rollins mentioned earlier this month. “We should be strategic in how we’re implementing the mass deportation in order to not compromise our meals provide.”
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