So (I) just want to stop by and thank you." Our farmers, they're the best in the world. As good as you guys are, you're the best in the world. "And our farmers are anxious to ensure that they are able to get the equipment and parts that they need to continue doing what they do better than anybody else in the world.
"When you work hard, you deserve a fair price a fair deal," Vilsack said. He said it's important for the issue to get resolved in a way that is "fair and equitable for all of you." It's one that rural America relies on, farmers, ranchers and producers are constantly talking green," Vilsack said. "You don't forget the people who gave you an opportunity to serve, right? You just don't. The secretary pointed out the UAW backed him in 1998 when he ran for governor. More than 40 workers were picketing outside the facility when Vilsack and his entourage visited. Nationally, more than 10,000 Deere workers went on strike last week. That's what people here have to understand is that the corn they are raising is still being imported into Mexico even though its GMO."Īfter leaving a farm at the edge of Ankeny, Vilsack also stopped by a picket line for United Auto Workers (UAW) employees outside the John Deere plant in Ankeny. "And what the secretary (Mexican ag minister) has assured me is that market continues to be open. "That is a market that is very important to Iowa, very important to the Midwest, and important to the United States," Vilsack said. is the ability to continue having access to the Mexican market. While Mexican officials may limit domestic production of biotech crops, Vilsack said the important issue for the U.S. But, specifically, we are not going to allow the cultivation of corn in Mexican territory. Biotechnology is a set of techniques that are being used and are being implemented in many different areas, particularly health, human health. "We will continue to require and demand yellow corn from the United States," Villalobos said. export market for corn, buying roughly the same volume a year earlier while there were limited sales to China. 1, while China bought 842 million bushels. Mexico bought nearly 579 million bushels of corn in the marketing year that ending Sept. corn, topped in the 2020-21 marketing year only by China's entry into aggressively buying U.S. Villalobos said corn is also culturally important to Mexico, including for religious purposes in some cases. Villalobos said Mexico is self-sufficient in growing white corn, which is directed for human consumption and used to produce roughly 1 billion tortillas every year. We need that, and we depend very much on the supply of yellow corn for agro-industries." "But we are not going to avoid or we are not going to limit the importation of offered GM (genetically modified) corn from the United States. "The policy now is that we are not going to raise transgenic corn in Mexican territory," Villalobos said. But Villalobos said Mexico still relies heavily on corn from the U.S., and its policies would not affect U.S. Mexico has moved to ban its farmers from growing transgenic corn or use corn with biotechnology traits for human consumption. Vilsack also took time to visit with striking United Auto Workers (UAW) at a Deere facility in Ankeny and called for a quick but equitable end to the strike. Villalobos is in Iowa with Vilsack to participate in World Food Prize events in Des Moines. Mexican Agriculture Minister Victor Villalobos addressed the issue with reporters after a farm tour with U.S. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)ĪNKENY, Iowa (DTN) - Mexico's agriculture minister said Wednesday that a domestic ban in Mexico on growing biotech crops will not hinder U.S. Deere's workers went on strike last week over health care and retirement demands in contract talks with Deere. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took time during a trip to Ankeny, Iowa, to visit striking Deere and Co.
0 kommentar(er)
