Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday she’ll work across partisan lines with state agriculture departments, even as Democratic-led states brace for spats with the Trump administration.
At the winter policy conference of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, Rollins said states lead the way in shaping the country’s food and farm policies as the administration looks to shake up programs the Agriculture Department oversees.
“I want your ideas,” Rollins told the association’s members. “No matter whether you are red state or blue state or purple state or whatever it is, we want your partnership.”
Rollins’s comments echo a letter she sent the nation’s governors on her first day on the job, inviting them to participate in “laboratories for innovation” that would craft “bold ideas” for agriculture.
