Roger Marshall's longtime business partner Dan Tasset runs Nueterra, a private equity firm whose rural hospitals collapsed and left workers unpaid. A Nueterra fund owns two farm-chemical startups his wife invests in, and Marshall wrote the bill that would exempt their products from pesticide regulation.
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David Valadao claims he stands with Central Valley farmworkers.
Rick Crawford admits diesel prices are crushing east Arkansas. The war behind them has cost the state's farmers an estimated $343 million this year — and Crawford has voted against every House resolution to end it.
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Troy Downing and Donald Trump are waging a reckless trade war that is hammering Montana's agricultural economy.
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MAGA Republican Gabe Evans is running a campaign ad hauling hay and claiming fifteen years of ranching in Colorado.
Lahn named Derek Wulf his lieutenant governor pick on June 12. A Des Moines Register investigation found eight people or businesses have sued Wulf or his company since 2023, a judge has placed his farm in receivership, and the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office has an active investigation.
Evans owns three cows. His campaign ad shows him hauling hay and calls it ranching. His spokeswoman said the USDA counts anyone earning over $1,000 from agriculture as a rancher — and his latest disclosure reports $345.
Hinson's Save Our Bacon Act would stop states from setting conditions on livestock products sold inside their borders. Iowa hog and dairy farmers stood in a field in Elkhart and said it would punish the producers who paid to meet California's standard.
A new University of Arkansas tracking project counts 83 farm bankruptcies in Arkansas since 2021 — second only to California, and the most family-farm filings of any state in the country. Crawford told Arkansas farmers the trade war wouldn't hurt them in 2018 — and was still calling the tariffs a powerful move for farmers in 2025.