Stopped by Children's Home Society of South Dakota today to serve the kids and staff at the annual “All Hands” lunch. The whole team at Children’s Home is doing a terrific job serving our vulnerable kiddos! Thankful they gave me the cookie job - everyone is happy when they get a 🍪!

One year before 🇺🇸

Summer fun at the fair with the grands. Always enjoy seeing so many familiar faces at the Turner County Fair.

First panel of the day at the 2024 Midwest Agricultural Export Summit: The Export Farm Team. Featuring: Brent Boydston, Chairman of U.S. Grains Council Jim Sutter, CEO of USSEC Krysta Harden, CEO of U.S. Dairy Exporter Dan Halstrom: CEO of USMEF

🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement had had a profound impact on American agriculture. Next panel featuring: Jerry Schmitz, ED of South Dakota Soybean Gregg Doud, CEO of National Milk Producers Federation Beth Richardson, Consul General from Canada Dr. Jorge Cicero, Deputy Head Consul from Mexico

Terrific fireside chat between former Export-Import Bank Chairman Kimberly Reed and Congressman Brad Finstad. America’s farmers need a farm bill!

The Midwest is driving American agriculture forward. Great panel featuring: Ted McKinney, CEO of NASDA Sherry Vinton, Director of Ag, NE Hunter Roberts, Sec. of Ag & Natural Resources, SD Thom Petersen, Comm. of Ag, MN Doug Goehring, Comm. of Ag, ND

The world is in crisis and interestingly, people are experiencing hunger. America must lead. Grateful to have the following folks here in South Dakota to unpack this further: Ambassador Kip Tom, Farmer and (former) US Ambassador The Hon. Bonnie Glick World Food Program USA CEO, Barron Segar CSIS SVP, Daniel Runde

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Linda McMahon on being selected to Co-Chair President Trump’s transition team! She is a truly wonderful person and will make America proud 🇺🇸 Throwback (for fun)!

Takeaways from the 2024 Midwest Agricultural Export Summit: 1. Food security is national security; 2. Foreign buyers need to be held accountable to their commitments; 3. Price inflation and over regulation are putting family farms out of business. We can and must do better!

Congratulations Joe! It has been an honor having you serve on the SD Trade board for the past 18 months. Our state is fortunate to have your leadership.

“The upshot: Rather than Chinese workers losing their jobs, steelworkers in Brazil, chemical engineers in Europe, and solar panel makers in the U.S. may lose theirs.” wsj.com/world/china/ch…

🌽 Corn Maze season has begun 👏

Please join me in praying for the ongoing crisis in Sudan 🙏

Yesterday Dept. of Agriculture forecast that the #ag trade deficit is going to increase to $42.5b next year. A 39% increase over this year! 🇺🇸 America has historically been (and needs to become again) a food exporter, not a food importer!

Anticipated national average yields for corn and soybeans: 🌽 183.1 bushels/acre (up 5.8 from 2023) 🌱 53.2 bushels/acre (up 1.3 from 2023) Innovation is driving American #ag forward!

President Javier Milei is doing an incredible job restoring Argentina to greatness!

The drop in net farm income is not just an economic hiccup, it’s evidence of an agricultural downturn. High inflation, severe weather and plummeting crop prices should serve as a wake-up call for Congress to finally step up and do the right thing by modernizing the farm bill.

I think we can all agree that the price tag on U.S. elections is getting OUTRAGEOUS.