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As you might have expected, the Friday Free-for-all spends time dissecting last night's presidential debate. Pro Farmer policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer, RealAgriculture's Shaun Haney, Davis Michaelsen and Chip Flory all express their perspectives to what they saw and heard.
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Kurt Kovarik, vice president, government affairs at Clean Fuels Alliance America, joins us to discuss their petitioning EPA to reconsider RFS volumes. The flooding in the Midwest and higher rivers have damaged some infrastructure, including railroads. Soy Transportation Coalition executive director Mike Steenhoek reports on the situation. And USB CEO Lucas Lentsch wraps up the month of June in this week's episode of the Soy Checkoff Check-in.
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A significant hurdle was cleared in Iowa for Summit Carbon Solutions to build a pipeline to transport liquified carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to a deep underground sequestration site located in North Dakota. We get the details from CEO Lee Blank. And we have a Farmer Forum from two climate extremes: rainy in Iowa with Kevin Ross and dry in Illinois with Sherman Newlin.
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Parts of Iowa have been hit hard with flooding and the latest reported outbreaks of HPAI in poultry and dairy have provided an additional challenge. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig joins us to share reports and information on the situations. And Dr. Ernie Goss of Creighton University talks about the latest Rural Mainstreet Index, which canvases rural banks to paint an economic picture in the ag industry.
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Greg Peterson – Machinery Pete – regales us with a story involving David Brown, who built tractors and famous spy cars. Geoff Cooper, president and CEO at Renewable Fuels Association, talks biofuels issues, including their suit against the EPA.
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For this week's Friday Free-for-all AgriTalk host Chip Flory and Pro Farmer policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer have a conversation with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack about the Farm Bill, trade, biofuels, solar energy and many additional topics. 
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