USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue Speaks at MT Farm Summit

Last week USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue was speaking at the Montana Farm Summit and here are several of his comments on several topics. Secretary Perdue said that USDA is scrutinizing its regulations to helpfully help diminish the burden of unnecessary regulations.

Perdue: "We're are right now at the USDA cataloguing and categorizing all the regulations that are impediments to your productive capacity. We're going to look at removing some of those, changing some of those so when you get out of your pickup every morning that you not afraid that you are violating some federal rule or regulation. Wouldn't that be nice."

Secretary Perdue also addressed the issue of improving the health of our nation's forest and his support of harvesting timber to make healthier forests.

Perdue: "It doesn't grow as quick as beans or corn or cattle but it is a crop. It is renewable. It is a beautiful resource. It helps with the environment. It cleans water. It helps with carbon dioxide, all sorts of things. We have a lot of U.S. forrest land that is not healthy — part of that is budgetary, part of that is ideology, and litigation and NEPA regulations that we need to get figured out."