FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Farm Credit Council CEO Todd Van Hoose today made the following statement on the U.S. House of Representatives passing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

“House passage of USMCA is welcome news and an important first step in the process to ratify this important agreement. USMCA stabilizes our relationship with our top two trading partners and will result in more U.S. agricultural exports. We appreciate the Trump Administration’s leadership in securing the agreement with Canada and Mexico, and the House Leadership’s decision to work in a bipartisan fashion to adopt USMCA. And we look forward to quick action by the Senate.”