American Farm Bureau president Zippy Duvall is warning there may be collateral damage in rural America if President-elect Trump follows through on mass deportations and increases tariffs. Duvall is in Des Moines for the Iowa Farm Bureau’s annual meeting. Duvall says the organization doesn’t support tariffs because it draws retaliation — and ag commodities usually take the first hit. Duvall says the Farm Bureau is very interested in learning the details of Trump’s plan to deport people who entered the country illegally. Duvall says a lot of farm workers are undocumented because there’s no other people who want to do that work and the Farm Bureau will try to make sure deportations don’t harm the food system, rural communities or farmers and ranchers.
