Today on the Digging in Podcast. During the 2026 MOFB D.C. Legislative Fly-in, President Garrett Hawkins hosted a fireside chat with Richard Fordyce, USDA Undersecretary for Farm production and Conservation, and Brooke Appleton, the USDA Deputy Undersecretary for Farm Production and Constervation.

Note: The trio accepted questions from the audience but the audio was poor, so most questions have been edited out, but the conversation continued

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Host: Janet Adkison, Missouri Farm Bureau Director of Public Affairs

Guest: Richard Fordyce, USDA Undersecretary for Farm production and Conservation

Producer: Jacob King, Missouri Farm Bureau Video & Audio Media Specialist