Have you signed up for legislative action alerts yet? The Oklahoma Legislature convenes in less than two weeks. Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES Farm Bureau supports death tax repeal measure:  Passing a family farm on to the next generation may become less challenging, thanks to the reintroduction of legislation to repeal the federal estate tax, also […]

Have you signed up for legislative action alerts yet? The Oklahoma Legislature convenes in less than two weeks. Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES Ag groups endorse repeal of death tax:  The American Farm Bureau Federation is among the farm organizations that endorse legislation in the House and Senate to repeal the federal estate tax [Wisconsin […]

Have you signed up for legislative action alerts yet? The Oklahoma Legislature convenes in less than two weeks. Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES Trump pulls US out of Trans-Pacific Partnership:  President Donald Trump officially pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact that the Obama administration spent years orchestrating in order […]

Receive OKAgPolicy Today in your inbox each weekday morning! Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES Trump pledges ‘America First’ on trade, taxes, immigration:  Donald Trump assumed the presidency with a strong, populist pledge to rebuild the economy and the nation’s infrastructure by putting American interests first [Agri-Pulse]. White House orders ‘immediate regulatory freeze’:  President Donald Trump […]

Receive OKAgPolicy Today in your inbox each weekday morning! Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES The Trump era begins:  Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, ushering in a new era that most of official Washington is bracing for [The Hill]. Why rural America voted for Trump (opinion): […]

Receive OKAgPolicy Today in your inbox each weekday morning! Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES Five takeaways from Pruitt’s EPA hearing:  Republicans only need 50 votes to confirm him, and there have been no signs of GOP defections. Here are five takeaways from his confirmation hearing [The Hill].  Trump picks Perdue for agriculture secretary, ending historically long […]

Receive OKAgPolicy Today in your inbox each weekday morning! Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES Lankford, Inhofe to lend support at Pruitt’s EPA confirmation hearing Wednesday:  Bolstered by both of Oklahoma’s U.S. senators, state Attorney General Scott Pruitt goes before a divided confirmation panel Wednesday to explain why he should be soon-to-be President Donald Trump’s Environmental […]

Receive OKAgPolicy Today in your inbox each weekday morning! Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt to face tough questions in Wednesday’s EPA-chief confirmation hearing:  The very moves that put Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt in position to head the Environmental Protection Agency are also likely to give him the most trouble in […]

Receive OKAgPolicy Today in your inbox each weekday morning! Sign up here. ICYMI: FARM BUREAU BACKS OKLAHOMA AG PRUITT FOR EPA: Family farmers and ranchers from across the country overwhelmingly supported the confirmation of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the Environmental Protection Agency administrator at the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meeting last week [OKAgPolicy]. TOP […]

Receive OKAgPolicy Today in your inbox each weekday morning! Sign up here. TOP HEADLINES As Trump meets with biotech CEOs, farm advisers fret over empty USDA spot:  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has left the agriculture secretary as the last department head to be named to his Cabinet, while a meeting with the chief executives of […]