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Governor Tim Walz visited the Cannon Falls area farm of Danny and Mary Lundell early last March to talk about the tariffs that were instituted last spring and their potential effect on Minnesota’s agriculture industry. Joining Walz was Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen and Danny’s cousin, Stan Lundell, in talking about the tariffs’ effects.
“It’s always special to me to get an invitation to stand on places like this. You look out across here, and I’m just hearing that this cemetery back here holds six generations of this family that was on this place before Minnesota was a state in 1856 and that lineage,” said Walz after being introduced by Cannon Falls Mayor Matt Montgomery. “Yes it’s economic, but what we’ve always said when it comes to agriculture, it’s cultural and it’s the soul of who we are. As we’ve seen consolidation and operations getting bigger and bigger, the characters of rural Minnesota and rural America change because of that. The importance of making sure that if folks want to be able to be on the land, want to produce, that they’ve got an opportunity.”…