400-plus farmers and growers groups urge Senate to confirm Trump's USDA pick

FIRST ON FOX — A conjugation of much than 400 U.S. farm, agriculture and growers groups sent a missive to Senate leaders this week urging the swift confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump nominee Brooke Rollins to caput up the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), praising her arsenic a beardown dependable they spot arsenic well-positioned to talk to the interests of agrarian America.

The signatories included a whopping 417 national and authorities growers groups representing the interests of farmers, growers, hunters, ranchers, wood owners, renewable substance associations and authorities departments of agriculture crossed the state — encompassing what they said is virtually "all aspects of American agriculture, food, nutrition and agrarian America."

The USDA is the bureau that oversees the nation's agriculture and its practices. Its sprawling portfolio includes providing enactment for farmers, mounting the standards for schoolhouse meals and overseeing the information of meat, poultry and eggs.

The missive was previewed exclusively to Fox News Digital and sent to Sens. John Boozman, R-La., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. — the seat and ranking subordinate of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, respectively — conscionable 1 week earlier Rollins was slated to look earlier the sheet for her confirmation hearing.

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In the letter, signatories praised what they described arsenic Rollins’ foundational cognition of agriculture, combined with her argumentation and concern bona fides that they said made her uniquely qualified for the relation of U.S. agriculture secretary.

Rollins "has been engaged successful American agriculture since an aboriginal age," they said, noting Rollins’ puerility spent baling hay and increasing livestock successful Glen Rose, Texas — a tiny municipality immoderate 70 miles extracurricular of Dallas — arsenic good arsenic the summers she spent moving connected her family’s workplace successful Minnesota.

Later, Rollins majored successful cultivation improvement astatine Texas A&M connected a scholarship, earlier completing instrumentality schoolhouse astatine the University of Texas. She went connected to enactment for erstwhile Texas Gov. Rick Perry and past aboriginal served arsenic manager of the United States Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s archetypal word arsenic president. She past became president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, whose ngo is to "advance policies that enactment the American radical first." 

The nonprofit deliberation vessel has called connected Congress to restrict China's access to American farmland and has been captious of President Biden's vigor policies. 

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In the letter, the groups said Rollins’ agriculture and farming bona fides, argumentation expertise and her concern acquisition marque her uniquely prepared to "provide effectual enforcement enactment for USDA’s important, wide-ranging activities and ample workforce."

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The timing of the missive and Rollins' pending confirmation hearing, slated for Thursday, comes astatine a important clip for U.S. growers groups and agribusinesses crossed the country. 

It comes arsenic lawmakers person stalled connected a caller workplace bill, and connected different cardinal priorities for farmers and manufacture groups crossed the country. 

The 11th-hour transition of a authorities spending measure successful precocious December helped narrowly avert a authorities shutdown, but it failed to supply the afloat grade of workplace aid and different agriculture subsidies successful the amounts considered indispensable for galore successful the U.S.

In the letter, the groups cited Rollins’ "close moving relationship" with the incoming president, which they said volition "ensure that agriculture and agrarian America person a salient and influential dependable astatine the array erstwhile captious decisions are made successful the White House."

In sum, the missive said, Rollins’ enactment astatine USDA is indispensable to assistance "advocate for a caller workplace bill, stabilize an cultivation system successful decline, enactment the afloat nutrient and agriculture and forestry worth chain, and proceed American agriculture’s agelong past of providing the astir secure, affordable and nutritious nutrient proviso successful the world."

Rollins is not expected to look staunch absorption to her information to caput up the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and lawmakers who person spoken retired to day person praised some her acquisition and beardown cognition of the agriculture sector.