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Meet the 37-year-old ceo who runs her family’s rice business and asked trump to double down on tariffs

22 December 2025

At the White House earlier this month, President Donald Trump joined a roundtable of America’s farmers to announce $12 billion in bailouts. But when Meryl Kennedy, the 37-year-old CEO of her family’s Louisiana rice mill, spoke up to tell him that “the tariffs are working but we need to double down,” he was surprised: “You want more?” Trump asked.

Source : lafarmbureaunews

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