Farmers\, legislators\, and state leaders meet to promote USMCA

?legislators and farmers are coming together to support president trump's new trade agreement that would replace the north american free trade agreement.?you may remember that vice president mike pence visited lebanon a few weeks ago also to promote the new deal.?news 18's anna darling brings us the perspective of those who want to see this trade deal succeed.

3é< "i've had agriculture as a part of my life really my whole life."brent bible is a partner with stillwater farms, a farm that produces corn and soybeans/"we farm in tippecanoe, montgomery and clinton counties"he is a farmer who is voicing his support for the united states mexico canada agreement."free and fair trade are vital and important for the ag industry."it was at the boiler grain facility in romney that farmers and legislators came together to get on the same page.stand up "farmers for free trade organized today's event, and they are traveling 35 hundred miles across the midwest in this bus promoting usmca."director of indiana state department of agriculture bruce kettler says usmca modernizes the former agreement, nafta.and that it will benefit hoosier farmers.

"when you look at canada and mexico, they are really our number one and number three trading partners out of indiana so we do export a lot of products."indiana district 4 congressman jim baird agrees.

"in a rural community, agriculture provides a real foundation and it helps those communities to stay solid"congress still has to ratify usmca.bible says he can already see the negative impacts of not having a trade agreement in his business.

"specifically for us corn and soybean prices, we've seen those move up and down drastically, mostly down."he says the countries have put up tariffs that hurt their business and that usmca will help."that's why it's so important.

It provides for the opportunity to remove those trading barriers and get back to business as usual."anna darling news 18> 3 the farmers for free trade tour goes to chicago next.to learn more about the motorcade for trade tour and the organization, head over to our webse, wlfi.

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