Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are coming fast and furious, but the ag community is still waiting for the president-elect to pick someone to lead USDA.
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Category: Legislative Updates
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President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy as transportation secretary.
“During his time in Congress, Sean was a respected voice and communicator in the Republican Conference, advocating for Fiscal Responsibility, Economic Growth, and Rural Development. Admired across the aisle, Sean worked with Democrats to clear extensive Legislative hurdles to build the largest road and bridge project in Minnesota History,” the Trump transition team said in a statement.
The chairman and CEO of Deere and Co., which has been the target of tariff threats by President-elect Donald Trump, on Thursday strongly defended his company’s record of manufacturing farm equipment in the United States and exporting it to other countries.
“We rely heavily on our highly skilled employees in the U.S.” to “design and build … the most technologically advanced equipment in the world. And as a result of that, greater than 75% of all products that we sell in the U.S. are assembled here in the U.S.," Deere Chairman and CEO John May said on the company's quarterly earnings call. May jumped in to answer a question about Trump's tariff threat when it came up on the call.
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The 2018 farm bill extension expired on Monday, September 30. Here is what the Farm Bureau is saying about impacts on farmers.
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The economic relationship between Wisconsin family farms and the rural communities that surround them is changing. This Wisconsin study tells the story of what is happening to farms across the country.
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As a long-time highway lobbyist, I used to say Democrats were quick to spend the money but add regulations to the programs while Republicans cut regulations and were difficult to build support for new investment. The Road Builders took a look at what is currently happening. We know investments have gone way up.
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The federal government runs out of money in 85 days. The House and Senate easily cleared a short-term spending bill Wednesday, kicking the contentious debate over federal spending to the lame-duck session of Congress.
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Football coaches appear to be in the forefront of national political news nowadays here’s an excellent opinion piece published by Agri-Pulse from for Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville on the need to pass a farm bill.
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Twelve House members today are introducing a $14 billion disaster aid bill to compensate producers for weather-related losses in 2022 and 2023.
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