Members of Nebraska's congressional delegation tour a University of Nebraska-Lincoln-managed feedlot in Saunders County with Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Aug. 9, 2025. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner)

ITHACA, Nebraska — President Donald Trump’s ag secretary visited Nebraska after a Saturday storm and faced questions from farmers about some dark skies facing agriculture, including a few clouds some said the administration stirred.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins heard about tariffs and trade in a closed-press roundtable at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center.

Rollins got an inkling of the economic disruption of on-again, off-again, on-again tariffs with trade partners for Nebraska agriculture, including

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