2022
Tough Times
September 29 2022
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After Friday, September will be behind us. The U.S. government will enter a new fiscal year.
Our federal government will close down if our Congress does not pass a Continuing…
Challenges
September 23 2022
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America. Thank you.
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We face some serious global challenges. The human population has doubled in the last 50 years
to 8 billion. We will need productive farmland to increase food production and forest land…
Issues
September 15 2022
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With all the concern about climate change, countries around the world are looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions. We have been told for years that ethanol blended fuel will…
Inflation
September 7 2022
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America. Thank you.
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Let me open by reading a statement from Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA). “Without a robust rural
America, people in the city are going to wake up hungry, and the more I learn about…
Mother Nature
September 1 2022
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America. Thank you.
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It seems that this year we have faced more costly climate challenges than I can remember. Hot
dry weather in many states has provided ideal conditions for wildfires. So far this year…