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With the presidential inauguration of former vice president Joe Biden expected this month, it is time to look at how the future president may treat agriculture.
Let’s start with Biden’s and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 110-page unity task force (UTF) list of policy recommendations, released last July before the Democratic convention.
The U.S. agricultural sector, according to USDA, contributed $1.109 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product in 2019; agriculture and the food sectors were responsible for 22.2 million jobs. Of this 22 million, approximately 13 million jobs were in the food service, eating and drinking establishments. Given this impact on our society, you could imagine the Biden-Sanders UTF might devote at least a page to agriculture and ranching. One must search in vain to even find the word agriculture in the Biden-Sanders report.
On page 51, there is a small section dealing...