Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins joined several Cabinet members to unveil the latest component of her Make Agriculture Great Again Initiative: USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan. The comprehensive plan is designed to safeguard American agriculture by targeting multiple fronts. It focuses on securing U.S. farmland, boosting resilience within the agricultural supply chain, and defending the national nutrition safety net against fraud and foreign exploitation.
“We feed the world, lead the world, and we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods,” Rollins said. “This action plan puts farmers, families, and the future first.”
The plan also includes protections for agricultural research and innovation, prioritizes American interests in all USDA programs, and aims to secure the health of animals and plants, along with critical agricultural infrastructure. The urgency behind the plan was reinforced by recent events in which the Justice Department charged foreign nationals for smuggling a noxious fungus into the country—an act that could have served as an agroterrorism weapon with a history of causing severe crop losses globally.
