The Sonnyside of the Farm U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue

Secretary Perdue talks tax reform, deregulation, and trade with White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. The two discuss President Trump’s historic tax cuts and their effects on American farmers and small business owners.

Secretary Perdue sits down over zoom with Guy Sorman, contributing editor at the City Journal and former French economics professor. Secretary Perdue and Guy Sorman discuss the way America’s free market economic system has allowed American agriculture to thrive. The two also discuss what the future looks like and what we can do today to ensure we remain food independent.

On this month’s episode of The Sonnyside of the Farm, Secretary Sonny sits down with Jon Entine, Founder and Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project, to talk about innovation in agriculture. If we as a society are going to continue doing our part to feed the growing world population, innovation is imperative in agriculture to produce more with less. While America’s farmers and ranchers are up to the challenge, there is a narrative out there that’s anti-science and against innovation, making consumers inaccurately fear their food. This episode will help educate and inform consumers that science and innovation in agriculture are safe and vital.

On this month’s episode of The Sonnyside of the Farm, we’re talking with Denton McLane, Chairman of McLane Global and Grace Norman, Chief of Staff at the Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty. We are talking about a heroic partnership that sprang up in March between Baylor, McLane Global, PepsiCo, and USDA to help feed kids in rural America who have been impacted by school closures due to the Coronavirus. When schools closed back in March, USDA issued waivers to ensure kids were still able to pick up their breakfast and lunches from school. However, there are many kids who live in rural America where it takes a long time and many miles to pick up their meals. Together we have delivered over 25.5 million meals to kids across America to ensure the millions of kids USDA feeds during the school year continue to have the nutritious food they depend on.

On this week’s episode of The Sonnyside of the Farm, we’re talking to Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas, and USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety Mindy Brashears about the safety of America’s food amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus opened the eyes of many people in America as to where their food comes from. As the leaders of America’s Food Safety regulations, Deputy Commissioner Yiannas and Under Secretary Brashears shed an interesting light on how we kept our food supply safe during the pandemic and what can be done moving forward.

This month, Secretary Sonny interviews a farmer and a processor to talk about USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program. The food supply chain as a whole has been hit hard by the coronavirus – from the farmers that grow the food, to the processors who move the food, to the families who need food now more than ever. To work through these challenges, USDA created innovative new program, called Farmers to Families Food Box, where we buy excess produce, dairy and meat from our farmers and processing companies box it and deliver it to those most in need. Programs like this are the best that America has to offer – it all comes down to Americans helping Americans.