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“Infrastructure has really taken the front burner here lately,” says Hunter Carpenter with Ag Retailers Association. “Infrastructure week has turned into the infrastructure quarter.”

Lawmakers may have left town, but centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) left no doubt that he cannot support President Biden’s $1.75 trillion social and climate spending plan, imperiling the president’s agenda.

Welcome to a nightmare—the Yazoo Backwater Project—a bureaucratic taffy pull of dysfunctional government, politics, science, farming, and the backdoor dealings of a federal agency.

COVID-19-related legislation continues to run the gavel, while rural America urges Congress to deliver on its economic relief promises. Here are three issues to watch.

The AFBF suggests EPA halt their plan to rewrite WOTUS until it has more guidance in deciding which waters are categorized under the federal jurisdiction.

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The ag groups are of a position such labeling and regulations should be: durable, predictable, science-based and not fluctuate between administrations.

Since the chlorpyrifos tolerances have expired, chlorpyrifos products with food uses are currently misbranded, and it is a violation of FIFRA to sell and distribute misbranded pesticides.

The Senate Commerce Committee passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA), helping agricultural exporters level the playing field for American exports.

Covering a full slate of round ups from DC, Richard Gupton, Senior Vice President of Public Policy & Counsel, joined The Scoop podcast to talk about everything from atrazine to infrastructure.