Some agriculture and livestock leaders are warning that mass deportation of immigrants will have huge impacts on the industry. Department of Agriculture. But we also need legal pathways for the hardworking, law abiding, taxpaying immigrant workers who are so critical to many important industries.
Teagarden is a member of the American Business Immigration Coalition, a group that is calling on President Trump and the Republican-led Congress to provide more legal pathways for non-citizens to stay and work in the U.
Kay Henderson. Republican Terry Branstad, elected to six terms as governor, has been president of the World Food Prize Foundation for the past two years. Vilsack served 12 years as U. Secretary of Agriculture during the Obama and Biden administrations.
Branstad served as U. The Iowa Legislature annually provides some funding for the World Food Prize, which hosts a symposium each October in Des Moines that draws dignitaries, as well as researchers and ag industry experts, from around the globe. The World Food Prize is mainly supported by donations from individuals, corporations and other foundations.
Each year, a World Food Prize laureate is recognized and awarded a half a million-dollar prize. Trump proposed new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China to take effect as early as next month. Most likely, those countries will add taxes on U. Brooke Rollins told senators that she will advocate for the needs of U.
