2021 Spring Farm

2021 Logan County Farm Outlook LINCOLN DAILY NEWS March 18, 2021 Page 7 I n the agricultural industry, 2021 means a new president, a new set of ideals as to what American agriculture should look like and also a hint of déjà vu as we see the return of some familiar faces in places of power. There are aspects of the Obama administration that were set aside with the arrival of President Donald Trump. Now, it feels like Joe Biden, who was President Obama’s VP, is looking to restore some of the former administration’s policies. While there were policy segments in both the Obama and Trump administrations that were good for agriculture, other segments were perhaps not that great. However, agricultural producers on the whole are politically more conservative and found favor in a number of the actions taken under the Trump administration, they will now have to re-adjust to a new less conservative administration. In an article published in Farm Progress magazine, Roger McEowen, professor of agricultural law and taxation at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, KS attempted to put it in perspective. “I try to tell farmers, divorce yourself from the politics of it and deal with the reality of it. The problem is right now, we don’t know what the reality is going to be until we see how the politics of this plays out. It’s horrible to have your business dependent on what people in Congress do who don’t understand the full impact.” Though Biden is the President of the United States, the future of agriculture in this country is going to fall into the laps of the What those in agriculture can expect under the Biden administration Continue 4