Jim Wiesemeyer of Wiesemeyer's Perspectives podcast and John Newton, vice president of public policy and economic analysis at the American Farm Bureau Federation, join Chip Flory for this week's Friday Free-for-all. Topics include jobs data, interest rates, USDA re-organization, U.S.-China trade talks, diesel prices and a lot more.

<p>Jim Wiesemeyer of Wiesemeyer's Perspectives podcast and John Newton, vice president of public policy and economic analysis at the American Farm Bureau Federation, join Chip Flory for this week's Friday Free-for-all. Topics include jobs data, interest rates, USDA re-organization, U.S.-China trade talks, diesel prices and a lot more.</p>

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We wrap up our coverage of World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, sponsored by Herd-i. National Milk Producers Federation president and CEO Gregg Doud is a former U.S. Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the office of the United States Trade Representative. He joins us at World Dairy Expo to discuss the dairy industry and world trade. Corey Geiger is CoBank's lead dairy economist and he joins us at World Dairy Expo, where he was just named the Industry Person of the Year, to discuss the new report, titled: Higher-component Dairy Herds Capture Bigger Milk Checks. U.S. Representative Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15) is the Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture and he joined us at World Dairy Expo for a conversation on his immigration worker bill and other issues.

<p>We wrap up our coverage of World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, sponsored by <a href="https://www.herd-i.com/us">Herd-i</a>. National Milk Producers Federation president and CEO Gregg Doud is a former U.S. Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the office of the United States Trade Representative. He joins us at World Dairy Expo to discuss the dairy industry and world trade. Corey Geiger is CoBank's lead dairy economist and he joins us at World Dairy Expo, where he was just named the Industry Person of the Year, to discuss the new report, titled: Higher-component Dairy Herds Capture Bigger Milk Checks. U.S. Representative Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15) is the Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture and he joined us at World Dairy Expo for a conversation on his immigration worker bill and other issues.</p>

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