‘Liberation Day’ comes for California almonds
President Donald Trump’s trade wars are putting California farmers and ranchers, happy with his promises to deliver more water, back into financial — and political — limbo. … The California Almond Alliance told Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in a March letter that retaliatory tariffs would hurt American profits and cede more market share to competitors, like Australia. Its main ask: a smooth government bailout if retaliatory tariffs can’t be avoided. … Almonds do have a few things going for them. They have an ally on the inside: Trump last month named former Almond Alliance president Aubrey Bettencourt to lead the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a USDA agency focused on soils.
Related article:
