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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins' Full Opening Statement Before the House Committee on Agriculture

Listen carefully and you will understand in part why food prices have been so temperamentally high. Yes, some prices have come down, they can come down even more while others are yet to come down, like beef.

The other factor is the high interest rates maintained by the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell - high interest rates means the cost of planting remains high, and that is passed along the food chain to the consumer.

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