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Home » Multimedia » Podcasts » Agri-Pulse Newsmakers » Newsmakers: May 6, 2022: EPA Administrator Michael Regan, Growth Energy’s Chris Bliley, NPPC’s Michael Formica, ARA’s Richard Gupton on biofuels, WOTUS, and pesticide registrations
The Biden administration is approaching a key deadline to publish annual volume targets for biofuel blending. There’s also the ongoing effort to redefine the definition of a Water of the U.S. and looming concerns about the loss of crop protection tools through the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval processes.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan joins Newsmakers to discuss the work the agency is doing on the long list of food and ag policy concerns at the agency. There’s also thoughts from industry leaders like Chris Bliley at Growth Energy, Michael Formica at the National Pork Producers Council, and Richard Gupton at the Agricultural Retailers Association about what the EPA is doing – as well as what they’d like the agency to do instead.
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Farm groups are concerned about Trump’s threat to increase tariffs on U.S. trading partners. House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., joined Newsmakers to discuss ag tax and trade policy, including what’s at stake in the election.
Then, Kristine Tidgren from Iowa State University’s Center for Ag Law and Taxation and Jim Richards with Cornerstone Government Affairs discuss how farm country will be affected when TCJA provisions expire in 2025.
North Dakota Republican Sen. John Hoeven joins the show to discuss the potential impact on agriculture of Donald Trump’s tariff proposals.
Then, incoming National Sorghum Producers Chairwoman Amy France and American Soybean Association director Ronnie Russell discuss the unique farm bill push from coalitions of row crop farmers on Capitol Hill this week.
A handful of races will determine which party controls each chamber of Congress. We spoke with Senate race analyst Jessica Taylor from the Cook Political Report about the probability of Republicans winning the Senate.
Then, Anne MacMillan of Invariant and the Russell Group’s Andrew Harker discuss Republican and Democratic election priorities and what to expect in Congress this month.
We spoke with House Ag Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson about potential farm bill movement and the growing ag trade deficit. United Soybean Board Chair Steve Reinhard joined the show to discuss export prospects for the record soybean crop and Rabobank economist Stephen Nicholson previewed the farm economic outlook.
Cheri Bustos, a former Illinois congresswoman and ex-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, discussed rural perspectives on the presidential race and recounted her experience in Congress with vice presidential nominee Tim Walz. Then, we asked Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack — who attended the DNC in his personal capacity — what a Harris administration will approach some key issues for agriculture.
