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Secretary Rollins Delivers the Keynote at the 101st Agricultural Outlook Forum, Feb. 21, 2025

February 21, 2025 · USDA · 0:28:37

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What happened

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins spoke via Zoom to the 101st Agricultural Outlook Forum near Washington, D.C., on Friday, February 21, 2025, according to the department’s description of its upload, published March 4, 2025. The address was the Secretary’s keynote to the department’s flagship annual outlook gathering, delivered remotely in her second week in office.

Why it matters

The Agricultural Outlook Forum is where USDA sets out its farm-economy outlook for the year, and a new Secretary’s keynote there is her first extended statement of the department’s direction before the farm, commodity, and agribusiness audiences the forum convenes.

Scoreboard watch

The Secretary’s statements in the keynote are recorded here as she stated them, to be checked against USDA’s farm-economy record for 2025.

Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ‘USDA Secretary Rollins’ Keynote at AOF 2025,’ March 2025 (official upload, embedded above; event dated February 21, 2025 in the department’s description).