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Good Food

How Sonny Perdue is shaking up the USDA

You may not think the Secretary of Agriculture has anything to do with you. But everything related to food in this country — down to the cost of produce at the market and the price of a steak dinner at your favorite restaurant — falls under the purview of the Ag secretary.

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By Evan Kleiman • Jun 2, 2017 • 1 min read

You may not think the Secretary of Agriculture has anything to do with you. But everything related to food in this country — down to the cost of produce at the market and the price of a steak dinner at your favorite restaurant — falls under the purview of the Ag secretary. The President has chosen former governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue, to carry out his new agenda in the wake of this week’s hotly contested withdrawal from the Paris Treaty. We called Harvest Public Media’s Investigations Editor, Peggy Lowe, to find out how rural America is reacting to the big changes coming to crop subsidies, immigration, school nutrition programs, food stamps and more.

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    Evan Kleiman

    host 'Good Food'

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    Laryl Garcia

    Senior Director, Good Food

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    Abbie Fentress Swanson

    Independent reporter and producer

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