During our #MOFBinDC legislative trip, we sat down with American Farm Bureau Federation staff Don Parrish (AFBF Senior Director, Regulatory Relations) and Veronica Nigh (AFBF Economist) to discuss two important issues affecting our members: the new Clean Water Rule and trade.

On this special edition of Digging In with Missouri Farm Bureau, MOFB President Blake Hurst sits down with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley to discuss Senator Hawley's transition to Washington DC and some current issues that are important to our members. Eric Bohl and Spencer Tuma also recap last week's MOFB Washington DC trip.

Eric Bohl and Spencer Tuma update the Chinese trade situation, Andrew Wheeler's confirmation as EPA Administrator, Scott Gottlieb's resignation as FDA Administrator, a roadmap for regulation of fake meat, and the upcoming MOFB Washington DC trip.

Eric Bohl, Leslie Holloway, and Spencer Tuma go over the proposed replacement to WOTUS, the Clean Water Rule. Seeing progress on talks with China, Trump postpones raising tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods. New study shows Missouri food manufacturing could increase more than 50% in 8 years, adding $25 billion in economic activity and over 70,000 jobs to the state.

Eric Bohl, Spencer Tuma, and BJ Tanksley review MOFB's Legislative Briefing and Day at the Capitol, plus the latest on China trade talks, the Clean Water Rule, PDMP bill, and Missouri legislature priorities.

MOFB President Blake Hurst joins Eric to talk about why rural road infrastructure has become so important to agriculture, and Spencer Tuma recaps President Trump's State of the Union address and discusses the portions that related to agriculture and rural America.

The government shutdown ended after 35 days - what does this mean for Missouri farmers? How has this affected the MOFB Fly-In to DC? Will the government shut down again on February 15? How many chicken wings will be eaten during this weekend's "big game"? Eric and Spencer discuss on this week's Digging In.

On this episode of Missouri Farm Bureau's Digging In we talk with BJ Tanksley Director of State Legislative Programs about the issues he is working on over at the state capitol.

This week Eric and Spencer recap President Trump’s speech to the 100th Annual AFBF Convention in New Orleans. They also discuss insights gained from the convention about infrastructure, hog farm nuisance lawsuits, and more.

On this episode of Missouri Farm Bureau's Digging In we are coming at you from Tan Tar A where the Governor's 48th Conference on Agriculture is being held. We are joined by BJ Tanksley our Director of State Legislative Programs and Spencer Tuma our Director of National Legislative Programs. We talk with BJ about the new legislative class being sworn in at the Missouri capital and we talk with Spencer about the government shutdown on the national level.