The Senate Committee on Finance has advanced the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on a party-line vote. During the vote, Republican Thom Tillis of North Carolina said he could not find organized opposition from the agriculture community and other groups, and believed the silence […]
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A United Soybean Board director has mixed views on the current administration’s approach to trade. April Hemmes, who farms in northern
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