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Most Googled; Maladministration; Tough Love

Most GoogledOn Saturday, 23 November, the most Googled thing for those in U.S. agriculture policy circles was Brooke Rollins. Her name had not been amongst the 15 or so possible names mentioned in media reports to  head USDA. A prominent name added to the list late last week was former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler. She had briefly served on the Senate Agriculture Committee and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, runs the Intercontinental Exchange. Instead, many in agriculture were scratching their heads over the weekend with Mr. Trump’s pick of Ms. Rollins. She grew up on a farm and studied agriculture at Texas A&M, but she has spent her career as a conservative policy advocate that rarely if ever involved agriculture. Of the half-d...

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Forecasting developments in production agriculture

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