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Farmers excited Trump makes infrastructure a priority

An Illinois farmer says she’s excited President Trump plans to make infrastructure a priority.

Lynn Rohrscheib tells Brownfield 60 percent of the state’s soybeans are exported which need access to quality roads, bridges, rail and waterways.  “That value of those commodities is around $3 billion. If we lose those avenues—with our bridges and roadways and railroads and also our waterway systems—that’s a huge amount of profitability that’s going to go away for our farmers.”

She says transportation infrastructure is necessary to remain competitive on the global market.  “If we keep closing roads and bridges and things like that, it makes it a lot harder for our farmers to get our commodities to market which dramatically increases the cost of our production, which then increases the cost of production for everything on down the consumer chain.”

Brownfield interviewed Rohrscheib during this week’s Illinois Soybean Association Transportation Tour, which highlighted how soybeans get from field to port for export throughout northwest Illinois.

AUDIO: Interview with Lynn Rohrscheib

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