CPA AGRICULTURE CO-CHAIR, PRESIDENT OF NEBRASKA FARMERS UNION
John Hansen is president of Nebraska Farmers Union. He was first elected to his first two-year term in 1989 and has been re-elected every two years since. Hansen serves on a number of National Farmers Union Committees and Boards including the Executive, Budget & Audit, Legislative, Meritorious Service, and Regenerative Agriculture and Local Foods Committees. He also serves on the NFU Foundation, PAC, and Services Association boards. Before moving to Lincoln to serve as President in 1990, he operated a diversified grain and livestock operation in Madison County, NE.
Companies making goods from the Department of War (DoW) will now need much clearer visibility into their supply chains, especially if a product they make or buy includes critical minerals.
Trade structured to support production raises productivity, and rising productivity raises the incomes that fund consumption durably, out of earnings instead of borrowing. That is the only durable answer to the cost-of-living crisis: paychecks that can carry the price of housing, healthcare, and childcare.
For years, the most critical link in our drug supply chain — the upstream chemistry — has been invisible to our own regulators. A medicine finished in Europe is not necessarily a European medicine, and this rule finally begins to expose that fiction.
A new joint white paper finds that aluminum extrusion — the most capital-intensive step in frame production — must occur in the United States for solar module frames to qualify for the Section 45Y/48E domestic content bonus credit.
