The trick will be to craft something that doesn't duplicate cumbersome, restrictive, inefficient policies of the past. Glickman also identified food safety, further estate tax reductions, expanded world trade and affordable, reliable transportation as keys to keeping American farmers in business and profitable. He sympathized with sectors such as Florida tomato growers, who fight a losing battle with lower-cost Mexican produce. But overall, agriculture needs trade to grow. The domestic market isn't growing fast enough to absorb U.S. farm production.
Exports already take about one-third of American farm output.
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