Jamie Ager

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202 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard Apr 2025

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Like wherever you can in any political environment.
And, you know, we were participating also in some of these
What were they?
The Climate Smart Agriculture Grants.
A lot of that stuff's gotten cut as well.
And so I guess I wasn't surprised just because the political environment is what it is.
But it's also like when we have an opportunity to do something that's very consistent with the stated goals of some of this, you know, the constituency of the current administration, then like that's a little annoying and frustrating.
I mean, I think that, well, that's a good question because we've been sort of buried in Hurricane Helene world here in Western North Carolina.
That's okay.
But that's been mostly my focus and stuff like that.
So I honestly haven't really talked to many farmers in the last couple of months about this particular issue.
I mean, I think, you know, rural America is definitely voting for Donald Trump and
There's frustrations.
I think there's cultural issues between like urban areas and rural areas.
There's a ton of political divide in this country.
And I really see myself as like some, I understand all these different worlds pretty well.
And I think that sort of camping up and I see a lot of the political issues that affect rural America as very bipartisan.
And to me, it gets frustrating whenever one side, you know, I've complicated political beliefs, Don.
And I think that how do we solve hard problems in rural America is not sort of a red and blue type issues.
I think that there's a ton of problems with the USDA.
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