1-20-23 AGRICULTURE OF AMERICA

Friday's AOA kicked off with Reza Bloomer, Director of Business Development at InnerPlant - a company creating new GM traits that allow plants to communicate when they are stressed. In segment 2, Brian Briggeman, Ag Economics Professor at Kansas State University spent time explaining his expectations for the economy in the year ahead; and inflation was still a concern. That same inflation is pushing up labor prices throughout the ag economy, and that includes immigrant labor. In segment 3, Louis Bridges and Kathy Brown from the Insurance Office of America discussed the impact of the AEWR changes. And we closed the show with Mercedes Gearhart, Senior Agronomist at AdvanSix, discussing the importance of sulphur