Nick Levendofsky (right), executive director of the Kansas Farmers Union, asks a question of former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman during a U.S. Global Leadership Coalition meeting on Aug. 28, 2025, in Overland Park. (Photo by Morgan Chilson/Kansas Reflector)

TOPEKA — Collin Tuthill, president of one of the country’s largest canned and frozen food importers and distributors, said the current state of the U.S. food industry is “like we live in some kind of alternate universe.”

The most efficient industry is being hit the hardest by tariff policies and rising costs, he said Tuesday during a video call with reporters.

“The folks that are taking the punches are the ones that can’t really afford to take the punches,” said Tuthill, president of Royal Food Import, a North Carolina-bas

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