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In an interview on a Sunday talk show, Ohio Sen. JD Vance challenged government payments based on color, pointing to a USDA program that provided benefits to farmers who are Black. The...
Summit Carbon Solutions was granted a construction permit by the Iowa Utilities Commission to build a 688-mile stretch of the company's proposed...
An Iowa-based agricultural solutions company is partnering with an insurance company to provide a health coverage option for farmers across the...
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Jerry Hagstrom, DTN's political correspondent, is a prize-winning agricultural journalist, author and commentator. He writes The Hagstrom Report, a daily service for subscribers, is a columnist for National Journal in Washington, and writes for other publications. The American Journalism Review named him one of its "unsung heroes" for his agricultural coverage. He has won numerous awards from the North American Agricultural Journalists and is a past president of that organization.
Jerry discusses farm issues frequently on C-SPAN and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC's Farming Today. He has lectured at the USDA Outlook Forum, the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee on Obesity and before university audiences and trade groups.
Born in North Dakota, Jerry grew up on a farm at Wilton and Bismarck, N.D. He graduated from University of Denver and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and a research fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University.
He is the co-author of The Book of America: Inside Fifty States Today and the author of "Beyond Reagan: The New Landscape of American Politics" and "To Be, Not To Be Seen: The Mystery of Swedish Business."
In an interview on a Sunday talk show, Ohio Sen. JD Vance challenged government payments based on color, pointing to a USDA program that provided benefits to farmers who are Black. The...
USDA on Monday published a Notice of Funding Opportunity for a second tranche of the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (RAPP). Groups must apply by October 4. USDA anticipates that...
At a meeting of rural Democrats at the Democratic National Convention this week, current and former officeholders talked about strategies to win a larger share of the rural vote. Democrats see Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as helping...
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and the ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee both discussed the election and the farm bill in an interview at the Republican National Convention. One of the Senate's...
Following President Joe Biden's announcement Sunday that he will not run for the Democratic nomination for president this year, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow...
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and the ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee discussed the election and the farm bill in an interview at the Republican National Convention. One of the Senate's top...
Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., the ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, on Tuesday released a farm bill framework that is similar to the GOP-written farm bill that the House Agriculture Committee passed, but with fewer...