The discretionary budget at USDA would increase 16% under President Joe Biden's proposal. Among the funding increases would be expanded broadband access, more money for agricultural research...
Jerry Hagstrom
DTN Political Correspondent
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."
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Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Wednesday introduced a bill to require each U.S. meat processing facility that slaughters more than 125,000 head of cattle yearly to...
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DTN Ag Policy Blog
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