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We may be just a month into 2018, but action is already underway when it comes to a major issue affecting farmers and ranchers this year.

Today, my subject is Senator Bob Dole, Kansas.

In November, America’s trade deficit surged to over $50 billion, ensuring that the 2017 U.S. trade deficit is over $500 billion.

As negotiators prepare to meet next week in Montreal, Canada for another round of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) modernization talks, the U.S. meat industry remains steadfast in advocating a “do no harm” approach to agricultural trade.

The national media spent the last year sending reporters out to the middle of the country, trying to figure out what makes us tick.

From my perspective, our government has been getting some good things done.

We’ve long known that early parenting decisions affect childhood development and may even have a lasting impact on a person’s health.

While Washington has been focused on how tax reform could spur economic growth, our nation’s interest with modernization and progress should go way beyond taxes.

I want to look back at 2017.

When it comes to agriculture research no organization is as important to our farmers as is USDA and the Agriculture Research Service (ARS).