U.S. President Donald Trump met with Cabinet members at the White House to discuss national priorities, including rising farming costs and America’s dependence on foreign fertilizer imports. When asked about affordability and reliance on suppliers like Canada, Trump said the U.S. could impose “very severe tariffs” to encourage domestic fertilizer production. Cabinet officials added that a reshoring plan is already underway, involving the Interior Department and other agencies, to strengthen American manufacturing and reduce external reliance.
This video includes Trump’s full remarks on tariffs, fertilizer policy, agricultural costs, and the administration’s broader effort to rebuild critical supply chains.
00:00He's great and she's great. They're both great people. We have a lot of great people at the Republican Party. Go ahead.
00:04Can I get back to farming?
00:06Yeah.
00:08So you talked about the profitability issue, the machinery playing a role in that, or fertilizer plays another role in that.
00:14A lot of that, the way I understand it, it comes in from Canada, different countries like that.
00:19What are we doing to bolster domestic fertilizer production to help make that more affordable?
00:24And then I think that will transition down to pipeline.
00:26A lot of it does come in from Canada. And so we'll end up putting very severe tariffs on that if we have to, because that's the way you want to bolster here.
00:37And we can do it here. We can all do that here.
00:40But I would say what you do, you put very severe tariffs on from coming into other countries.
00:45You'll be making your own fertilizer.
00:47In fact, Secretary Burgum, this cabinet is so remarkable.
00:50Instead of just seeing each other every month, we're literally talking every day, multiples of times a day.
00:55But our Secretary of the Interior, I, and Secretary Bessett and others, we have a whole plan in place, including the reshoring of fertilizer and the opportunity to do it in America.
01:05Having said that, we've also, per the President's guidance, issued a directive.
01:10These fertilizer companies, the seed companies, the equipment companies, all of the above, as our farmers have struggled year over year,
01:17these meatpacking companies continue to make, you know, a lot of money, hand over fist, a lot of foreign-owned companies.
01:24So that's why the President has been very unequivocal in saying we've got to figure out why all these input costs are skyrocketing and all of our farmers are struggling, which we're going to do.
01:35So when they take, like, fertilizer out of the country, all of a sudden we don't do it anymore.
01:39And then they start charging and sending, you know, very high prices from other countries, whether it's Canada or somebody else.
01:46And we're not going to let that happen.
01:47Yeah.
01:48Okay?
01:48On the quality of foreign produce, you spoke about soybeans and how the quality here in the United States, obviously, is a lot better.
01:57That's what I've heard.
01:58Yeah.
01:58Is the default of this administration, because that's an issue I understand with root, vegetables, citrus as well, is the default of this administration that even if it's a little bit more expensive, homegrown, you will choose homegrown over cheaper produce abroad?
02:12I like homegrown.
02:14You know, some things we can't grow because we don't have the heat.
02:17There are some things, you know, little delicacies or maybe not such delicacies, but they grow better in warmer climates, very warm climates, actually.
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