A former USDA economist and undersecretary discussed their experiences in D.C. during the virtual James C. Snyder Memorial Lecture by Purdue University.
Ted McKinney, former USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, discussed some of the challenges.
“First is an outdated and broken World Trade Organization. I do believe we need a WTO and I think we will get there, but it was outdated, and we needed to upgrade that,” he says.
