President Donald Trump will address ranch and farm families from across the US, at the 99th Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which is being held in Nashville this week. Although the Bureau says it is honored to be hosting the US President, Trump’s policy to crack down on immigration threatens to adversely affect the nation’s agricultural industry, which depends heavily on immigrant labor.
The Farm Bureau has stated that as many as seven out of ten farm workers could be undocumented immigrants, despite the President’s former claims that his clampdown on illegal immigration would not impact on US farmers, and he is expected to address the issue.
Georgia poultry and beef farmer, Zippy Duvall, the President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said he reminded the President of his promise that agriculture would be involved on major issues faced by the ranchers and farmers in the US ahead of the convention, and that they are privileged to reserve a place for him. Duvall said that the President’s speech is a sign of the regard in which Trump holds the nation’s ranch and farm families.
Duvall says that rural communities, ranchers, and farmers are the bedrock of the US, a fact he believes that the President is well aware of. Trump will address members of the Farm Bureau on the heels of three years of declining profits and prolonged economic challenge in the farming sector.