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Priority government issues of the day would have to be trade negotiations with China and President Trump’s meeting with N. Korea leader Kim Jong-un.

Our Ag industry has been hurt…

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Our economy is booming.  Job growth in 2018 averaged 220,000 new jobs each month.  419,000 workers have come back to work.  The labor force participation rate is up to 63.1 percent. …

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Optimism is in the air.  Pessimism is being crowded out.  The second government shut down that looked like a certainty is not going to happen.  President Trump will not get the…

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We all live with a new reality today.  Nothing is secret, and if you are in government or in a high-level executive position, someone will be out to bring you down.  Virginia…

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This week I was in Peoria, Illinois speaking to the Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association.  I am on my farm now broadcasting on the phone. 

Farmers and ag suppliers had a…

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When I go back to my farm in Illinois and drive down our country roads, I can’t help but think about the unbelievable change since I was a boy.  I went to a one-room country…

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For some time now on the question of trade, all we have focused on is our trade war with China.  I will talk about that today.  But I also want to remind everyone that trade…

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Christmas is behind us and the New Year is off to a wild start.  But today, I want to talk about the Cabinet Secretaries luncheon that we held on December 14, just before…

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Happy New Year to everyone.  Today, I want to look back over last year and make some predictions for 2019.

Looking back for the U.S.A., it was a very good year.  Lowest…

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I know.  I was wrong.  I said we would avoid a government shutdown.  Congress won’t appropriate money for a wall to block the surge of illegals over our southern border. …

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