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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
The first week of the 118th Congress has been marked by the requirement of multiple votes to elect a House Speaker for the first time in 100 years. As House Republicans sort out their future leadership team, the next chair of the House Ag Committee – Pennsylvania Republican Glenn “GT” Thompson – joins Newsmakers to discuss how he plans to put a farm bill together in the current political climate.
Then, farm policy lobbyists Ethan Lane with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Anne MacMillan with Invariant, and Randy Russell with The Russell Group discuss how the House formation delays and the retirement of Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., might impact the farm bill.
As 2022 comes to a close, Agri-Pulse sat down with leaders across the farm policy spectrum to better understand their priorities in the upcoming farm bill as well as their broader legislative and regulatory efforts.
Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., will be one of the top Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee in the new Congress, offering rural influence in a powerful position on Capitol Hill. In this interview, he discusses the committee’s priorities in the upcoming Congress and what that might mean for farm policy.
Then, Agri-Pulse’s Sara Wyant discusses how our annual CEO salary report got started, why we do it and how the information is used in the media and the boardroom.
Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet introduced new farm workforce legislation this week, giving him and the bill’s other supporters one week to build the support the bill will need in the current session of Congress. Bennet, a member of the Senate Ag Committee, also discusses his priorities for the upcoming farm bill and the state of drought in the American west.
Then, a panel of experts including Claudia Larson with the National Milk Producers Federation, Michael Marsh with the National Council of Agricultural Employers and Mary Nowak with the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives discuss Bennet’s new legislation and the reception it is getting on Capitol Hill and among the nation’s farm groups.
The lame duck session is a busy one in Washington, and several farm policy priorities are hanging in the balance. Senate Ag Committee Republican Roger Marshall of Kansas joins this week’s Newsmakers to discuss reform at the Food and Drug Administration, the chances of passage for ag labor legislation and more.
Then, Chandler Goule with the National Association of Wheat Growers, Mary-Thomas Hart with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Matt Valesko with the Conaway Graves Group offer their thoughts on the environment for the upcoming farm bill as well as the other issues facing farm policy in 2023.
Congress is checking off a long list of priorities in the lame duck session and setting the stage for a busy 2023. Georgia Republican Austin Scott is one of the top Republicans on the House Ag Committee and joins Newsmakers to preview his priorities in the upcoming House majority.
Then, Danielle Beck with Invariant, Jonathan Coppess with the University of Illinois and RJ Karney with NASDA offer their thoughts on the issues that will face Congress in the upcoming farm bill and what they expect to be the big stories in the new year.
