Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins addressed the “uncertainty” felt by farmers amid President Donald Trump‘s trade war, suggesting that current market shocks will continue for “a few weeks or a few months.”

As the president ramps up the implementation of new tariffs, Trump and his top aides have started setting expectations for economic “disturbances” ahead of what they’re calling a “golden age” of prosperity in America.

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However, markets have reacted less favorably to the president’s agenda.

Rollins briefly spoke to reporters Tuesday morning at the White House, where she was asked to address uncertainty felt by U.S. farmers in particular.

She reiterated that Trump views tariffs as “a very important part of his tool kit” but claimed that the president “has our Ag producers’ back and the farmers and the ranchers.”

“Someone has to right-size the ship, and he’s been very clear,” Rollins continued. “It’s going to be a little bit bumpy for maybe a few weeks or a few months, but at the end, his vision, and again, what we’re effectuating, is that our American farmers and ranchers, but truly, all Americans will be moving into an era of greater prosperity.”

During his address to a joint session of Congress last week, Trump told the nation to prepare for short-term economic “disturbance,” but White House officials have danced around how long it will take for Trump’s tariff war to actually lower prices for households.

Meanwhile, recession speculation has boomed in recent days. Earlier this month, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow gauge began projecting a 2.8% economic contraction in the first three months of the year, ending March 31, down from Friday’s projection of a 1.5% decline.

“There’s going to be no recession in America,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick countered during a Sunday interview on NBC. “Global tariffs are going to come down because President Trump has said, ‘You want to charge us 100%? We’re going to charge you 100%.'”

Rollins had some positive news to report on Tuesday, with egg prices coming down by $2 since the Trump administration started its effort to combat H5N1 bird flu that has decimated the poultry industry.

Late last month, Rollins announced that the Agriculture Department would spend $1 billion in its effort to lower egg prices and curb the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu.

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In addition to possibly importing up to 100 million eggs from foreign markets, Rollins’s plan included subsidizing biosecurity measures for poultry farms and continuing research on the efficacy of preventive vaccines for poultry.

“We’re more focused on how we bring the price of eggs down and the avian bird flu for everyone,” Rollins told reporters Tuesday morning. “A good piece of news we just got in the last day or two is that the average cost of a dozen eggs has gone down $1.85 since we announced our plan about a week and a half ago.”

Gabrielle Etzel contributed to this report.