Trump Willing to Help Farm Workers and CDC Ends Bird Flu Emergency
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**President Trump is once again emphasizing his willingness to protect American farmers who rely on immigrant workers to operate their farms.
At a rally last week, the president said he would allow farmers who hire migrant workers to take charge and permit their workers to remain in the country.
But News Nation says this plan would NOT create a path to citizenship that many immigration advocates wanted, just protect them from being detained.
**The Centers for Disease Control has ended its emergency response to bird flu as the outbreak that sickened dozens of people, spread to cattle, and drove up egg prices has abated.
The CDC is combining bird flu updates with the routinely reported seasonal influenza infections and will post the number of people monitored and tested for H5N1 every month.
Some of the hardest hit states are also slowing their reporting efforts.
**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.
Rollins says we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods.
