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USMCA is a top priority for Farm Bureau members

The director of congressional relations with American Farm Bureau says ensuring that the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement gets across the finish line is a top priority for the industry.

Andrew Walmsley says progress is being made in ratifying the USMCA.

“We have a window- I think there’s still optimism to get it done here in the next month or two or sometime over the summer, but it’s a process,” he says.

American Farm Bureau was one of more than 900 organizations to write a letter to Congress last week urging swift ratification of the USMCA.

Walmsley says trade and immigration are top priorities and the organization is also focused on how the recent disaster package and the second round of market facilitation program payments will impact farmers.

AFBF lobbyists and economists provided a legislative update during the 18^th annual Indiana Farm Bureau Leader Trip.