Signal to Noise: How Will Biden Admin See Rural America?

The Trump and Obama administrations had very different relationships with agriculture and rural America. Will the Biden Administration learn any lessons from those two predecessors?

DC Signal to Noise
DC Signal to Noise
(Farm Journal)

The Trump and Obama administrations had very different relationships with agriculture and rural America. Will the Biden Administration learn any lessons from those two predecessors? Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer and Farm Journal’s John Herath look at the relationship between ag and the incoming administration in this week’s DC Signal to Noise Podcast.

Also in this episode:

  • Updates on all three rounds of CFAP payments
  • An update on China trade
  • AFBF proposes changes to NASS reports
  • USDA announces key staff
  • Can a new coronavirus aid package pass a fractured Congress?

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