Press Mention: A different kind of farm organization

Excerpt: “The laissez-faire, free-trade approach just burned up our countryside,”  BELLEVUE, Wash. — Farmers at the 117th anniversary convention of the National Farmers Union this week had the same worry as the ones who attended the organization’s first gathering more than a century ago — low incomes. [Don Jenkins | March 7, 2019 | CapitalPress.com]The 460…

Trump, Trade, and Tariffs

Brian Duncan, Vice President of the Illinois Farm Bureau, Zach Mottl, Chief Alignment Officer of Atlas Tool Works, and Peter Roskam, former U.S. Congressman and current IOP Pritzker Fellow, had a panel discussion on the short – and long-term dynamics of the Trump administration’s trade policies, particularly as they affect Illinois. They discussed the current…

How Team Trump is keeping promises on trade

Editor’s note: Peter Navarro has driven a large part of the administration’s aggressive trade strategy.  Last Friday, President Trump unveiled his grand strategy for American prosperity: the 2019 Trade Policy Agenda. This forward-looking report from the US Trade Representative maps out America’s deliverance from the bad deals, weak guardrails and sluggish growth that have handicapped…

When will ‘Buy American’ really mean buy American?

Editor’s note: CPA supports strong Buy America rules in government procurement.  Our government’s procurement policy falls far short of its potential to encourage and support good jobs in domestic manufacturing. We need to strengthen domestic sourcing requirements for publicly funded programs, including those intended to repair our failing infrastructure…. [Owen E. Herrnstadt | March 4, 2019…

Do you care where your burger came from? American cattle farmers do — Washington does not

Excerpt: “The corrupt policy that prevents consumers from knowing from which country the beef they purchase for themselves and their families originated is the best policy the old-guard politicians and their multinational corporations can buy.” For decades old-guard politicians and multinational corporations worked together to satisfy their mutual self-interests – more wealth. They did so with little…