Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at reducing what they describe as bureaucratic overreach affecting farmers, ranchers and small businesses. Rollins said the agreement is intended to protect landowners from burdensome government enforcement actions and radical environmentalism. Country singer John Rich, who now serves as the administration’s special envoy for American landowners, said producers deserve greater respect. “”Farmers and ranchers should be treated like royalty, but unfortunately they’re kicked around like tin cans on a daily basis by state governments, local governments, municipalities, utility companies and NGO,” said Rich. “Everybody seems to be against the farmer and the rancher. I don’t know if it’s their ignorance that that’s where their food actually comes from, or a broader pattern of socialism and communism creeping into this country where they’d sure like our food supply to be dependent on one of our enemies instead of our own homegrown American farmers and ranchers.” The agreement creates a joint USDA-SBA effort to investigate and respond to what the administration calls environmental lawfare.
