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MO ag director meets with Trump and Perdue in D.C.

Missouri Agriculture Director Chris Chinn represented agriculture at a meeting with President Trump today and later met with Ag Secretary Perdue. Chinn tells Brownfield Ag News, “That was a great honor to carry the story of agriculture to the Oval Office. We talked about a lot of the challenges that rural America faces. We thanked the president for bringing attention to rural America.”

Chinn tells Brownfield she thanked Trump for sending funds to the USDA to expand rural broadband, for the tax cuts that are helping farmers and ranchers, for E15 expansion and for the new NAFTA agreement.

Later, Director Chinn met with Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue, “It was a great opportunity to thank Secretary Perdue for everything that he’s done for the state of Missouri with our recent drought. He was really quick to identify that we needed the natural disaster declarations so that we could release those federal funds.”

Chinn says she also thanked the Secretary for “the deregulation that’s happening across this administration and the benefit that it’s had for agriculture, especially Missouri farmers and ranchers.”

Chinn says it’s vital to farmers and ranchers that the administration saw the harm in the Waters of the U.S. rule (WOTUS), rescinded it and is working on a replacement.

AUDIO: Interview with Chris Chinn ~