AgNet Exclusive with Sonny Perdue

Josh McGill May 2, 2017 Export/Import, Exports/Imports

Gary Cooper left, Perdue right

AgNet Media’s Founder and President Gary Cooper caught up with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in D.C. to ask about trade concerns in both the peanut industry and the Florida vegetable industry.

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