It's no secret that the American farm economy is struggling, and Allen County business leaders learned more about that this morning.
ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - It's no secret that the American farm economy is struggling, and Allen County business leaders learned more about that this morning.
Speaking today was the executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
It was the Lima/Allen County Chamber of Commerce's fair edition of Wake, Rattle, and Roll. Speaking today was the executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. He says that this is the second year of the two largest economic declines in farm income in U.S. history, and the government needs to get a farm bill passed to help stabilize the agri-business economy as we are becoming dependent on others for food.
Sharp went on to say we need to be aware and make sure we are setting good policies for food production in this country because the last thing we want to be is dependent on other people for our food supply.
"And right now, the United States, for the first time, also the second-stat first time, we are a net food importer. And that comes as a shock, and that should be to people. Now there's a little bit with that, with prices being higher for value-added products that we purchase and import into this country versus a lot of the exports we do as commodity-based. So there's a little bit of a difference there," said Adam Sharp, executive VP of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
He went on to say we need to be aware and make sure we are setting good policies for food production in this country because the last thing we want to be is dependent on other people for our food supply.
