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Ag policy dynamics of a Democrat President and GOP Senate

The president of Minnesota Farm Bureau is hopeful about more bipartisanship under a Democratic administration and GOP Senate.

Kevin Paap tells Brownfield with the election over, it’s time to put partisan politics aside.

“So now as we look at not so much politics but policy, that we have a track record (with) ag policy both in the state and in Washington D.C. of the ag committees working together in a bipartisan way.”

He points out president-elect Biden spent a lot of time in the Senate.

“He understands that in the Senate if you want to get things done you have to work across the aisle and get those 60 votes many times. So I’m hoping that we can now get to work and start working on ag policy and have a whole lot less politics.”

On trade, Paap says he hopes the Biden Administration builds on the success of USMCA and other trade agreements to springboard into new deals.  He also wonders if the U.S. will revisit the possibility of reentering what is now the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.