In April 2025, a coalition of 30 Big Ag industry groups sent a letter urging Congress to “maintain U.S. leadership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)”. The letter argues that the global trading system is essential for American agriculture to “feed the world” and that WTO membership has benefitted the U.S.

However, these toted benefits are extremely misleading and entirely based on nominal value changes, not actual increased export volume.

In reality, these same globalization policies have gutted U.S. farms, empowered foreign suppliers, and handed us the largest agricultural trade deficit in American history. More of the same open trade policies will only worsen this trend and continue hollowing out family farms across the country. Family farms aren’t feeding the world—they’re fighting to survive.

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