GROVETON — Rep. Maggie Goodlander, New Hampshire’s newly elected Democratic Congresswoman for District 2 was in the North Country Thursday taking notes as she met and heard from the agriculture and forestry community about the federal impacts they face for their small businesses.
From tariffs impacting milk and fertilizer prices, to the H2A temporary foreign worker agricultural visa program to delays to get into USDA slaughterhouses, to dealing with agricultural equipment manufacturers requiring their licensed techs do repairs, Goodlander said she wanted to be of assistance and has experience taking on corporate abuse of power.
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