Amy Klobuchar

A coalition of agriculture groups is asking the Senate to consider shipping reforms. Specifically, the group hopes the Senate will consider the House-passed Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021, or similar legislation. Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, and John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, are drafting a bill to address unreasonable ocean carrier practices ...

Last week, a pair of farm state senators introduced the Precision Agriculture Loan Act. Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer and Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar say their bipartisan legislation would create a program within the Department of Agriculture to provide loan financing to farmers and ranchers interested in purchasing precision agriculture equipment ...

Kansas Republican Senator Jerry Moran along with Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar and Vermont’s Patrick Leahy, both Democrats, recently introduced legislation that would relax the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba. The senators noted the goal of the Freedom to Export to Cuba Act  is to open another avenue for profit for American farmers and ranchers. “The unilateral ...

One of the recent Farmfest 2020 Virtual Sessions included a roundtable on the state of the agricultural economy. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar was one of the panelists, and she said agriculture has taken several hits in recent years. “One of the hardest things is after years of challenges, whether it is ethanol waivers for our biofuels, whether it is some of the trade problems that we’ve seen,

A group of lawmakers wants the Trump administration to create a Rural COVID-19 Task Force. Led by Representative Antonio Delgado, a New York Democrat, and Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, the group penned a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue ...

A bill passed by the House Judiciary Committee would increase the amount of farm debt covered by chapter 12 bankruptcy.  Last week, the committee passed the Family Farmer Relief Act.  Introduced by New York Representative, Democrat Antonio Delgado, the bill would increase the current debt limit used to determine whether a farmer is eligible for relief under chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code, a spe