US and UK ag officials want a free trade deal

US and UK ag officials want a free trade deal

NASDA CEO Ted McKinney says state agriculture directors, secretaries, and commissioners continue to send a message to the administration that ag trade is critical. 

Speaking with Brownfield during the recent Agricultural Summit by First Farmers bank in Trust, he said, “anything we can do to get more attention on trade starting with a free trade agreement with the UK. They want one so badly. It might be missed opportunity if it goes on much longer (without a trade deal).”

The United Kingdom’s Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey told attendees of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Winter Policy Conference that the U.K.