CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- President Biden was in Illinois today. He earlier visited a family farm in Kankakee where he talked about the connections between the war in Ukraine and food here in the U.S.
Shirtsleeves rolled up with mic in hand, President Biden told the audience at the O’Connor Family farm that he has nothing but praise for American farmers. He said they not only feed America and helped the country get through the pandemic, but they feed the world.
He said farmers are important and are needed to do the same once again, because Ukraine has been the number one producer of wheat corn and cooking oil and the Russian invasion’s brought all that to a halt. Farmers here are stepping up—he says—and the administration has their backs.
The administration is also making the case that it’s doing everything possible to hold prices down despite the war in Ukraine. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the president is making the right moves.
"To bring the cost of gas down, you also have to expand the supply, which is why it's important to support bio-fuels and he instructed me to use $700 million of pandemic assistance to help that industry."
Biden said they’re reducing the red tape for so-called double cropping-growing two different crops on the same fields in the same season.
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