Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins joined several Cabinet members to announce the next pillar of her Make Agriculture Great Again Initiative: USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan.
The initiative covers several critical areas. It secures and protects American farmland, enhances agricultural supply chain resilience, and protects the U.S. nutrition safety net from fraud and foreign exploitation.
“We feed the world, lead the world, and we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods,” Rollins said. “This action plan puts farmers, families, and the future first.” The plan also defends agricultural research and innovation, puts America first in every USDA program, safeguards animal and plant health, and protects critical infrastructure.
Recent events highlight the critical need for this action as the Justice Department charged foreign nationals with smuggling a noxious fungus into the United States.
It was a potential agroterrorism weapon that’s been responsible for significant global crop losses.
