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IL Farm Bureau members wrap-up meeting with NAFTA push
The 2017 Illinois Farm Bureau annual meeting wrapped up as it began, with a call to Washington to keep the North American Free Trade agreement. The nearly 2000 delegates gave a show of hands for keeping NAFTA.
Newly re-elected IFB President Richard Guebert told delegates this morning, “Twenty-eight percent of all Illinois exports go to Canada and Mexico – not to mention that NAFTA supports more than 30,000 Illinois jobs,” Guebert said. “It’s time the president dials back the anti-NAFTA rhetoric and gets serious about supporting American farmers and business by renegotiating the deal, instead of sabotaging the talks.”
Mark Gebhards, executive director of the governmental affairs addressed reporters at the end of the session about the sense of the body resolution on trade and NAFTA, “We are concerned, to say the least, with the administration’s focus on potentially withdrawing from this agreement.
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