The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has outlined several priorities for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to consider in addressing critical supply chain issues facing America’s farmers and ranchers. 

“We are now in our 18th month of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dur­­ing this period, our nation has witnessed vulnerabilities throughout the supply chain that haven’t been seen before,” AFBF President Zippy Duvall wrote in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Supplies of farm inputs like crop protectants, fertilizers and seeds have been difficult to obtain and expensive to...