USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins enjoyed her time in what she described as her home town- as she addressed thousands of cattlemen and ladies at the 2025 Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Convention on Saturday. Ahead of her address to the TSCRA- she met briefly with reporters and she hit several topics important to the agricultural community.
She told reporters the economic battle being waged by President Trump is “massive work to realign the American economy as we work to move our products from America to the world economy” and the President is using tariffs to get trading partners around the globe’s attention- and Secretary Rollins says the Administration is identifying non tariff trade barriers that will be negotiated in the days ahead- she mentioned “Argentina not accepting our live cattle since 2002 on unsubstantiated claims” and also the EU with some barriers against our row crops.
Rollins, in response to a question about the tariffs and how they have roiled the agricultural markets said “The period of uncertainty that we are in was one that was expected as the markets adjust- we have a lot of confidence that the adjustment will be quick as the negotiations are ongoing.”
She referred back to 2019 when then USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue and President Trump came up with $25 Billion dollars to help farmers deal with income losses because of the tariff battle with China in the President’s first term. Secretary Rollins says she is hopeful that such help will prove to not be needed- but if it is- she is confident that the President will have the farmers backs.
Click on the LISTEN BAR below to hear additional answers that Rollins supplies on things like battling the New World Screwworm, Ag Labor and getting $10 billion in Emergency Economic Aid out to farmers and moving on to $20 Billion that was authorized by Congress last December- she is hopeful that will be heading out the door soon as well.
