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Biden: G7 To Address Global Fertiliser Shortage Tomorrow

WHITE HOUSE

President Joe Biden is in Kankakee, Illinois delivering remarks on farming and Ukraine.

  • The remarks can be followed here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
  • White House: 'President Biden Delivers Remarks on Putin’s Price Hike and his Administration’s Actions to Support Farmers and Food Processors, Lower Their Costs and Lower Prices for Families, and Standing with Ukraine.'
  • Biden calls America the 'breadbasket of democracy' and says America is fighting on two fronts. Inflation at home and to protect Democracy in Ukraine.
  • Biden: 'Ukraine has 20 million tonnes of grain in silos. If they can't get to markets an awful lot of people in Africa are going to starve to death.'
  • Biden: 'We are doing something about it. Expanding production and feeding the world.'
  • Biden says the administration will expand insurance policies to farmers to allow double cropping.
  • Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack will be dispatched to Europe this evening for talks on food supply.
  • Biden: '[Vilsack] is heading to Germany to the G7. That is all the democracies in Europe getting together and their agricultural teams getting together ...to solve some really big problems.'

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