No one reading this publication needs me to tell them that 2019 was a tough year for many farmers and rural communities. Here in the Midwest, we bore the brunt of an international trade war with China and wondered if we would be pulled out of NAFTA. We were battered by record flooding and saw the biofuels industry hit hard by the Trump Administration’s small refinery waivers to oil companies.
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