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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – President Trump's program for reciprocal tariffs could person an interaction connected seed products, but workers are hopeful the short-term symptom volition beryllium worthy it.
President Trump unveiled his program for sweeping planetary tariffs connected each imports, a determination the White House said volition assistance support American jobs and industries.
CEO for the Fresno County Farm Bureau Ryan Jacobsen said portion determination is concern, helium hopes this volition assistance the ag manufacture successful the agelong term.
"If it does anything, this hopefully volition adjacent that playing tract to hopefully let america entree to immoderate of these different markets. It could beryllium large for California cultivation produce," Jacobsen said.
Jacobsen said planetary commercialized is pivotal for California agriculture, specifically seed products.
"Almonds, astir 80%, conscionable shy of 80% of what we nutrient is really exported. You instrumentality pistachios and truthful galore of these different types of, you know, seed products and different things, those are precise babelike upon overseas trade," Jacobsen said.
Farmers like Joe Del Bosque are connected standby.
"We are watching to spot what mightiness happen, whether these different countries are going to retaliate against the things that we grow," Bosque said.
Bosque said this clip of twelvemonth is slower for California growers, giving farmers clip spot however overmuch symptom is felt successful their crops.
"We're done shipping astir of our worldly from past year, truthful our caller harvest doesn't vessel up till the summer. There's clip for america to spot what that volition be," Bosque said.
Farmworkers stay uncertain arsenic to erstwhile and if they volition spot affirmative effects travel retired of these sweeping tariffs.
