Farmers have undoubtedly faced their share of challenges since the Trump Administrations trade war with China.  Today, our farmers still have some barriers in place which makes it more difficult to sell their products to our northern neighbors, Canada, and our southern neighbors, Mexico.  Currently, they are America’s largest trade partners with $4 billion a day of trade between the three countries. 
    According to the AFBT (2019), “The required International Trade Commission economic impact report on USMCA was released on April 18, 2019. It projects that USMCA when fully implemented, will add $2.2 billion to the amount of agricultural and food exports to Canada and Mexico.”   This is a windfall of economic resources that help both the farmers and the American people.  Regulations, however, which hinder such trade, do not help farmers during a time they need it the most, and also hinder such expansion and increase.
   Further, farmers and ranchers want to be able to make decisions about managing their land and water resources without uncertainty or time-consuming and expensive red tape as existing with cumbersome regulations.  Such hindrances must be addressed and rectified.