Thursday's AOA began with Mike Steenhoek of the Soy Transportation Coalition providing an update on rail, ocean freight, and truck shipping supply chains. Then, Emerson Sprick, Labor Policy Analyst with the Bipartisan Policy Center discussed the upward pace of wages throughout the economy and where things could go from here; Lia Biondo, Exec Vice President with the US Cattlemen's Association shared that organizations perspective on both the Senate and House Ag Committee Hearings on the state of the cattle market and their legislative hopes through the summer. And we ended the show with Rich Guebert, Illinois Farm Bureau President about his interactions yesterday with President Biden and Secretary Vilsack at a Kankakee, IL farm
5-12-22 AGRICULTURE OF AMERICA