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Repair common Windows errors and clear accumulated junk for a smoother, more stable PC - no reinstall needed.Free scan · no reinstallWhen President-elect Donald Trump announced Brooke Rollins as his choice for agriculture secretary on November 23, 2024, many farm, commodity and industry organizations welcomed the nomination and outlined priorities they wanted USDA to address. The public responses were not unanimous: the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Food and Environment Program criticized the choice, while later coalition and Senate materials documented organized support for confirmation. The Senate confirmed Rollins 72–28 on February 13, 2025, and USDA said she was sworn in that day.
What agriculture organizations said after the announcement
Agriculture.com’s report, updated November 25, 2024, collected early statements from farm and commodity groups, grain and feed organizations, a biofuel group, and other stakeholders. Many congratulated Rollins or said they looked forward to working with her. Their comments reveal the issues they wanted the incoming administration to prioritize, not a shared position on every policy question.
Farm, commodity and grain groups
The American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Sorghum Producers and National Grain and Feed Association were among the organizations responding. Their remarks touched on farm policy, a new farm bill, trade and market opportunities, and the economic pressures facing producers. American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said, “Effective leadership at USDA is more important than ever as farmers and ranchers face a struggling agricultural economy.”
American Soybean Association President Josh Gackle pointed to Rollins’s background, saying, “We appreciate that Rollins holds a degree in agriculture development and grew up on a farm.” The comment was one organization’s stated reason for welcoming the selection, rather than evidence of a sector-wide assessment of her qualifications.
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Biofuels and rural priorities
Growth Energy, which represents the biofuel sector, was also among the organizations quoted in the early coverage. Its response reflected interest in renewable-fuel markets and the role of biofuels in rural economies. More broadly, statements from farm and industry groups raised support for producers, rural communities, biotechnology and agricultural trade. These priorities differed by organization; the coverage does not establish that every group endorsed each one.
A critical response
The report also included a sharply different view from Karen Perry Stillerman, deputy director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Food and Environment Program. She said, “Outside of a misdirected interest in Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland, Brooke Rollins appears to have no agricultural policy track record to comment on.” That was Stillerman’s criticism of the nomination, not an independently established finding about Rollins.
Why a coalition urged confirmation
On January 15, 2025, a coalition letter dated by the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) called for the Senate to confirm Rollins. The letter said its signatories represented farmers, ranchers, growers, hunters, forest owners, conservationists, cooperatives, state agriculture departments, renewable-fuel producers and agribusinesses. It stated: “We write in support of Brooke Leslie Rollins’ nomination to be the 33rd Secretary of Agriculture.”
The coalition gave three broad reasons: the need for a new farm bill, concern about what it described as a declining agricultural economy, and the importance of supporting the food, agriculture and forestry value chain. Those are the signatories’ arguments for prompt confirmation; the letter is advocacy, not an independent evaluation of the nominee.
What the later confirmation statements show—and do not show
On January 28, 2025, the Senate Agriculture Committee published a compilation of supportive statements from committee leaders, senators, former officials, a governor and stakeholder organizations. It documents voices backing confirmation, but its purpose and framing were explicitly supportive. Taken together with the early industry coverage and NASDA-dated coalition letter, it shows that organized support was publicly expressed; it cannot measure how common support or opposition was across agriculture as a whole.
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The Senate’s official roll-call record shows that Rollins was confirmed 72–28 on February 13, 2025. USDA reported that she was sworn in the same day as the 33rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. The vote and swearing-in conclude the nomination process described by these statements; they do not resolve the different policy priorities or criticisms voiced during it.
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