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"Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and Abroad"
Members finish by testing proposals on H‑2A and workforce reforms, regulatory burdens, beef import policy and scaling university bioeconomy innovations, before the ranking member and chair deliver contrasting closing statements on trade, nutrition, and the farm bill’s direction and formally adjourn the hearing.
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"Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and Abroad"
The committee probes how Trump‑era tariffs, input costs and SNAP cuts affect farm demand, links nutrition and local procurement programs to stable markets, examines retaliatory tariffs, dumping, market concentration and labeling risks, and explores workforce, data and financing gaps limiting hardwood innovation and bio-based manufacturing in the U.S.
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"Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and Abroad"
Members question witnesses on cotton cost inflation and tax‑credit incentives, export promotion multipliers, cattle herd rebuilding and COOL, the use of MAP/FMD/TASC and ACE against non‑tariff barriers, and the impact of Canadian tariffs and retaliation on specialty crop and wine exports.
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"Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and Abroad"
Witnesses from specialty crops, cotton and rice, cattle, plant‑based products, hardwoods and family farmers present detailed diagnoses of market, trade, tax, labor and demand challenges and lay out targeted legislative and program changes to strengthen domestic production and rural economies.
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"Increasing Demand and Opportunities for Homegrown Products Here and Abroad"
The chair and ranking member set competing narratives on trade, nutrition and farm income, outline recent legislative tools, and formally organize the hearing by introducing the cross‑sector witness panel and procedural rules.
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"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
A member denounces recent tariff policy as harmful to farmers and rural communities and frames USMCA renewal as a credibility test, followed by discussion of additional policy tools such as agricultural labor reform, clarification of screwworm funding, and a bipartisan closing consensus that a refined, fully enforced trilateral USMCA is essential before adjourning the hearing.
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"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
Members probe how to strengthen Mexican labor and child labor enforcement, leverage USMCA SPS and biotech disciplines, and mitigate high input costs, while also examining the economic impact of global and Section 232 tariffs, rail reinspection and fumigation burdens at the US–Mexico border, screwworm‑related cattle trade disruptions and funding needs, and Canada’s dairy quotas and retaliatory measures on US fruits and nuts.
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"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
Initial member questioning tests concrete remedies for Canada’s dairy TRQs and Chapter 10 delays, explores panel outcomes in the GMO corn case, scrutinizes how USMCA boosts carcass value and biotech investment, and raises PACA protections, FDA parity for imported produce, animal health issues like screwworm, Mexican dumping claims, forestry market shifts, and new EU deforestation rules.
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"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
Witnesses from dairy, forestry, specialty crops, soy, meat, and the US Chamber detail how USMCA underpins export‑led growth, identify specific problem areas (Canada dairy TRQs, Chapter 10 dispute panels, Mexican labor and food safety enforcement, Section 232 metals tariffs), and generally urge a transparent, enforcement‑focused 16‑year renewal with targeted technical fixes.
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"Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA"
The chair and ranking member frame the hearing’s purpose around the upcoming USMCA joint review, quantify agriculture’s exposure to North American trade, criticize tariff uncertainty, and formally introduce the cross‑sector witness panel and hearing procedure.
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