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Opinion: The fortunes of US farmers and their global customers are inextricably linked

12/16/19 1:00 PM By Ryan LeGrand

Ryan LeGrand serves as the President and CEO for the U.S. Grains Council and in this opinion piece he discusses the importance of developing partnerships to create strong agriculture markets in the future.

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November 20, 2022

Chris Novak, CropLife America President & CEO

This week’s Open Mic guest is Chris Novak, President and CEO of CropLife America. With the dust still settling from the mid-term elections, officials with the crop protection industry have set their sights on the lame duck session of Congress, hopeful that Environmental Protection Agency funding and the Pesticide Registration Improvement Renewal Act can see action by legislators. Novak discusses the regulatory bottlenecks at EPA, the impacts on bringing new, more sustainable crop protection chemicals to market, as well as new questions by environmentalists about the Endangered Species Act. Novak says the industry is facing economic headwinds from higher energy and operating costs but expects to have products in place to meet farmer needs for the 2023 crop year.

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11.25.2022

Newsmakers: Nov. 25, 2022: Farm Bureau economist Roger Cryan, USMEF’s Erin Borror and Grains Council’s Cary Sifferath on economic picture in farm country

Harvest is wrapping up across the country and Thanksgiving celebrations to celebrate that bounty cost consumers more money this year. As the year comes to a close, Newsmakers discusses the finances of food production in 2022 and looks ahead to 2023.

American Farm Bureau Federation Chief Economist Roger Cryan discusses the group’s Thanksgiving food price survey and what those figures mean for producers as well as the 2023 indicators he’s watching to determine how things are going in Rural America. Then, Erin Borror with the U.S. Meat Export Federation and Cary Sifferath with the U.S. Grains Council talk about the export forecasts for the new year.

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