With Alabama's U.S. Senate campaign heating up, incumbent Senator Luther Strange is focusing on the farm.
Specifically, the senator has honed in on the 2018 Farm Bill even as his Republican Senate opponents continue canvassing the state for support less than one month before the Aug. 15 primaries.
Strange met with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, the former Georgia governor, on Friday during a meeting with farmers and agriculture industry officials Friday in Point Clear.
"I've committed to farmers not only here but across the country that we want USDA to be a partner in the productive capacity of our great American agricultural system," said Perdue, who has been publicly promoting in recent days the return of U.