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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Arkansas Republican Rick Crawford is one of the co-chairmen of the House Ag Committee’s Agricultural Labor Working group, which released their final report earlier this month with bipartisan and unanimous approval. He joins the show to discuss how the group came to agreement on a politically polarized issue.
Then, ag policy lawyer Kristi Boswell with Alston & Bird and Michael Marsh with the National Council of Agricultural Employers further discuss the impacts of politics on ag labor reform and the potential challenges that need to be overcome.
House Ag Committee Chair and Pennsylvania Republican Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson has long pointed to this spring as his potential window to move a farm bill through the House. Now, he stops by Agri-Pulse Newsmakers to offer an update on that possibility and what will need to happen for it to come to fruition.
Then, Virginia Houston with the American Soybean Association and Mike Stranz with the National Farmers Union examine this week’s committee hearing discussing China’s impact on American agriculture and where things stand on the farm bill.
The White House rolled out its annual budget this week, kicking off the FY 2025 appropriations process. But spending discussions are also top of mind for the upcoming farm bill, and House Ag Committee Democrat Nikki Budzinski stops by Agri-Pulse Newsmakers to offer her thoughts on where things stand.
Then, farm policy consultant Ferd Hoefner and RJ Karney with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture take a look at the factors facing lawmakers working on moving a new farm bill and whether or not those obstacles can be overcome.
Lawmakers rolled out a government funding package this week that includes funding for USDA to better track the country’s farm, ranch and forest land owned by foreign buyers. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., joins Agri-Pulse Newsmakers to talk about what’s concerning lawmakers right now and what needs to be done in the future to protect America’s national and food security.
Then, Micah Brown with the National Agricultural Law Center and Randy Dickhut with Agricultural Economic Insights talk about how state laws are impacting foreign farmland ownership and factors influencing the market for American farmland.
This year's Commodity Classic crowd set a record as members of the National Corn Growers Association, American Soybean Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Sorghum Producers and Association of Equipment Manufacturers gathered in Houston. Leaders of all five organizations sat down with Agri-Pulse Newsmakers at the Pivot Bio booth on the trade show floor to discuss the farm bill, government funding, trade, regulatory issues and more.
USDA’s use of Inflation Reduction Act conservation funds is a hot topic on Capitol Hill as lawmakers prepare for the next farm bill. Undersecretary Robert Bonnie heads up the department’s Farm Production and Conservation mission area and joins Agri-Pulse Newsmakers to discuss the status of those investments and other key issues like the status of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program.
Then, Ken Barbic with Invariant and Laura Wood with LWP Consulting share their thoughts on the politics of conservation spending, the government funding debate, the farm bill and more.
