Do rural votes matter? A perspective on the Electoral College
Rural Americans — both in ag and other blue-collar industries — are keen on politics. And the electoral college is important to having a voice.
Rural Americans — both in ag and other blue-collar industries — are keen on politics. And the electoral college is important to having a voice.
A California federal judge axed Trump-era Endangered Species Act rollbacks on regulations, potentially hindering progress by agricultural producers. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jon S Tigar voided laws that allowed economic factors to play on whether species could be listed as endangered or threatened. The ruling also removed protections that made listing species and threatened or endangered more difficult.
The only way to help rural America have a broader voice is to have meaningful conversations about substance and policy and stay engaged.
Research out of Columbia University show a slight Electoral College bias toward Donald Trump but less of a tilt than in the 2016 election.
With Trump zeroed in bigger farms and Biden on smaller one, to say there is one solid ag-answer to the presidential election is too broad a generalization.
Food production has long been central to politics, and the 2016 presidential race showed everyone just how vital the agricultural industry and rural America are to the election. It’s shaping up to be a barn-burner of a 2020 presidential election in more ways than one, as yet again the nation’s agricultural states look to […]
President Donald Trump, for the third year in a row, will address farm and ranch families at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 101st Annual Convention.
Today’s announcement that EPA will reopen the rulemaking for the 2020 RFS volumes and propose to account for waivers in the volume requirements.
State leaders of corn grower organizations in 23 states today sent a letter to President Donald Trump, calling on him to follow the law and keep the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) whole.
President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to streamline the agricultural biotechnology regulatory processes.