Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan is scheduled to visit central Iowa Tuesday, sources tell Agri-Pulse.

Several major ag states, led by Illinois, are losing seats in the U.S House as a result of the 2020 Census.

President Joe Biden is expected to release a new round of spending proposals this week, plus the tax increases to pay for them. Farm groups have been raising concerns for weeks about those tax proposals in the expectation they will include either the elimination of stepped-up basis or a new “transfer” tax on inherited assets.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he’ll make sure the Treasury Department understands the importance of stepped-up basis to farm groups. Vilsack was pressed about that issue during an appearance Wednesday before the House Ag Appropriations Subcommittee.