U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said Monday that President Donald Trump and the Republican lead Congress are working to help farmers and foresters across the country including the Yellowhammer State.
Tuberville, who sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee, spoke at the annual Alabama Forestry Association Conference about some of the benefits those in the forestry related industries will soon see.
“Now we have 23 million acres of forest in the state, Alabama, 23 million acres, he said. “It makes $36 billion a year. And again, I know about this because y’all come up to remind me of it quite often and appreciate you coming up. It’s big part of our economy, big part. So I hope you’re starting to get a plan. We’re starting to get a plan for you to help you, and everything that you do, from the from the loggers all the way to the sawmills, all the way to getting rid of your wood residual, everything that we can possibly do to make your life better, make more profit.”
Tuberville said the former Biden administration kept getting in the way of helping foresters and farmers in Alabama.
“The problem I have for four years is the Biden administration saying, ‘You know, we really don’t like farmers and forestry. We’d rather get it other countries. We don’t like digging holes or doing anything, or we just love regulations. You know, we just love putting putting people out of business, and they try and they try to put our farmers out.’ We lost 150,000 150,000 farms in the first two years that I was in the Senate, 150,000 don’t tell how many foresters.”
Tuberville explained that farmers will soon see even more benefits because of the passage of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill.
“And President Trump gave me $12 billion not too long ago, and I told him that that’s not enough,” he said. “You we got to do more than or we’re going to lose, continue to lose our farms. You know, we got the in the Big, Beautiful bill. We got the estate tax up to $15 million which hopefully would help a lot of y’all, because we don’t want you to sell your property. Want you to hand it down to your kids. We want you to be able to afford to do that. If you want to sell. That’s mine, but we will make sure that give you an opportunity to do whatever you want with your land. But it’s very important. So the economy in our state, $36 billion that’s a lot of money, and it employs a lot of people, and so here in the next year, we’ll be visible with you.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee
