Gabe Gutierrez is a senior White House correspondent for NBC News.
NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Dairy farmers Steven and Jodi Ohlson Read have heard what others in their rural Minnesota community think about the economy, griping about inflation and rising costs. But while they acknowledge that small farms have felt the economic impacts of the last few years very acutely, the pair went to see President Joe Biden speak on Wednesday in their hometown because they think he’s the one on the right track.
This week, he touted $5 billion in new federal funding for agricultural communities as he kicked off a two-week blitz aimed at winning back rural voters who have increasingly turned away from Democrats in recent years. “It’s about making things in rural America again,” Biden told a crowd inside the chilly barn in Northfield — some 30 miles outside Minneapolis. “Right now, the farmers and ranchers who actually grow the food only see a small percentage of the profit when the food is sold.
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