U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue got a chance to stop and reek the flowers in Michigan last week as he tour the state to take the pulse of Farmer and listen to their care .
Perdue ’s turn include a plosive speech sound at Summer Dreams Farms in Oxford , Michigan , where owner Michael Genovese show him around and get a chance to put up a flower grower ’s perspective on trade , the contender from imports and the grandness of the American Grown Act and the Cut Flower Caucus . Summer Dreams Farms arise dahlias in Oxford , about an hour compass north of Detroit .
U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue talk with flower farmer Michael Genovese at Summer Dreams Farm . Photos by Heather Saunders .
Perdue was in Michigan to hear from farmers at a time when tariffs and trade agreements are major concerns . Perdue also visited a sugar Beta vulgaris farm , a township hall merging with husbandman in Frankenmuth and Better Made Potato Chips .
At the town hall get together , Perdue fielded questions about the U.S.-Mexico - Canada Agreement , which would replace the North America Free Trade Agreement . The U.S.-Mexico - Canada Agreement is still being debated in Congress . Opponents are concerned about enforcement and the aspect of suffer American jobs .
“ The human race is watching , ” Perdue assure farmers . “ If we can not get an concord with people on the north and south of us , how can we have an agreement with the public on trade ? ”
Perdue said he intended to take what he heard back to Washington and President Trump .
“ Farmers are interesting , they like to bet you in the eye , ” said Perdue , according to a account on WWMT - TV . “ They can send an electronic mail or write an e-mail , but they respect when you add up and abide by them by looking at the background , feel challenges they have here , feel the jiffy of what they ’re contend with . That ’s my job . That can make me a more effective advocate to the president and to the disposal .
“ He asks me when I get back , ‘ how ’s it fail out there , Sonny ? ’ I have the chance to tell him . I told him a few weeks ago , ‘ Mr. President , it ’s rugged and it ’s getting rugged . ’ He says well that ’s negative and I say well you give me to severalise you the truth and that ’s what we do . ”
Amid all the serious business organization , Perdue ’s visit to Summer Dreams Farms left an stamp on him .
“ Several of his staff came up to me and say they had not ever seen him so unrestrained on a farm term of enlistment in a long time , ” Genovese said . “ I was also secern he was talking about the flower farm the entire crusade to and during the next stop on his tour . ”
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