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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Former White House physician Ronny Jackson pledged to keep pushing President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda after winning the GOP nomination for a Texas congressional seat over a cattle industry lobbyist who was backed by the Texas Farm Bureau and other state and national ag groups.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers is launching an online campaign effort to promote the need to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and expand trade and support the agricultural economy.
With President Donald Trump sliding in the polls, a handful of Senate seats in farm states he won handily in 2016 are increasingly at risk as Democrats look to win control of the chamber in November.
At least a dozen of the U.S. House's top 100 agricultural districts will have new representatives next year, and some of them are promising to focus on issues including consolidation in meatpacking and gaps in rural broadband service.
In a fresh blow to embattled Iowa Rep. Steve King, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy refused to take a position on his primary race and denied that he indicated to the nine-term congressman that he could get his committee assignments back.
If Republicans have any hope of winning control of the U.S. House this fall, they’ll have to start by winning a series of major agricultural districts Democrats won in 2018.
There’s interest on Capitol Hill and in the White House in an infrastructure package as part of the coronavirus recovery effort, but that interest will have to overcome the skepticism of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Hoping to win back rural voters this year, the leading Democratic presidential candidates are providing detailed proposals to shore up farm income ranging all the way from boosting commodity program rates to imposing New Deal-style supply controls.
Agri-Pulse is pleased to announce a partnership with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers to provide comprehensive coverage of the 2020 elections.
