This whirlwind of news coming out of Washington, D.C. continues and the Friday Free-for-all with Jim Wiesemeyer and Shaun Haney talk about USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins's first week on the job, trade, disaster and economic aid, DOGE and agriculture, and more.

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While at Top Producer Summit in Kansas City we took advantange of opportunities to record conversations with Mark Gold of Top Third Ag Marketing at StoneX about markets and risk management, and two producers you may have heard of: David Hula and Randy Dowdy in a first of many discussions we'll have with them on AgriTalk. 

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It's Day Two of our coverage of Top Producer Summit in Kansas City, sponsored by Rabobank. We have a special Farmer Forum featuring the Top Producer of the Year award finalists – Chase Larson of Kansas and Mark Hanna of Iowa – plus this year's winner, Marc Arnusch of Colorado. And we chat with Eric Gibson of Rabobank.

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We're in Kansas City at Top Producer Summit, with coverage made possible by BASF. We had an opportunity to meet with USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins who discussed trade policy and tariffs, avian flu, disaster and economic aid, and more. We meet this year's Women in Ag winner Kimberly Ratcliff and Next Gen winner Dalton Dilldine. And Scott Kay, vice president, plus Paul Ray, senior vice president at BASF, also join us.

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It is President's Day which also means it's Monday which also means it's time for the segment we can't live without: Machinery Pete's weekly report. And U.S. Farm Report's Tyne Morgan helps us out by having a conversation with Amy France, chairwoman of National Sorghum Producers.

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We've got a Friday Free-for-all packed with panelists and topics. Pro Farmer policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer, RealAg Radio's Shaun Haney, and Iowa soybean farmer April Hemmes discuss the Trump administration's campaign against wasteful federal government spending and some of the U.S. agriculture programs that may be affected.

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Paul Neiffer – The Farm CPA – talks about federal government bills and spending cuts. Dan Basse, president at AgResource Company, joins us to discuss the recent Global Supply and Demand Report and other issues. Plus, we have a conversation with seventh year USB Vice Chair Brent Gatton in a new episode of The Soy Checkoff Check-in.

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U.S. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas carved out some time for us between two voting sessions to discuss USAID, re-alignment of the Food for Peace Program, and the airline tragedy in Washington carrying passengers from his home state. Then we have a Farmer Forum with Steve Pitstick of Illinois and Tim Recker of Iowa.

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Michelle Rook is guest host this morning and she has conversations with American Soybean Association president Caleb Ragland, champion bronco rider Zach Arend of Saddle Your Own Horse ahead of his Top Producer Summit appearance next week, and Karen Bohnert of Farm Journal's MILK.

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U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa (and President Pro Tempore of the Senate) joins us to share his perspective on the job President Trump is doing so far, including DOGE, tariffs, USAID, and more. Plus Greg Peterson – Machinery Pete – joins us from the road as he heads into Illinois for begin three days of auction visits.

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