Former ambassador of U.N. Food & Agriculture Kip Tom on the need to help promote the success of American farms and how regulations hurt American farms.
For eight generations, my family has been farming on the same land in northern Indiana. We have taken care of the soil and produced grain that has been used to feed and fuel others all across the globe.
But our ability to do so – and to pass the farm to future generations – will be put at risk if Kamala Harris is elected president. Her policy priorities – from taxes to trade – would be disastrous for American agriculture, and raise food prices for American consumers even more.
For the last four years, under the Biden-Harris administration, agriculture in the United States has been put on the back burner.
Vice President Kamala Harris walks out into a packed rally in Glendale, Arizona on Friday Aug. 9, 2024. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
We have seen dwindling profits, increased input costs caused by rampant inflation, and billions pumped into a misguided green agenda. Farm income has declined – by some estimates as much as 43% – between 2022 and 2024. The financial risks and regulatory burdens have grown so much that I often wonder how my grandkids will be able to successfully farm.
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These outcomes are to be expected. For four years, farmers and ranchers have been ignored. And we are........