Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins is the latest guest on Politically Speaking. The head of one of Missouri鈥檚 most powerful and enduring agricultural groups talked with 漏 2024 外网天堂鈥檚 Jason Rosenbaum, Jonathan Ahl and Sarah Kellogg about his organization鈥檚 agenda for 2022.
Here鈥檚 what Hawkins discussed:
- What the Missouri Farm Bureau is and what it stands for, as well as what his group would like to see the Missouri General Assembly do in the 2022 session.
- Ongoing efforts to alter the state鈥檚 eminent domain laws. That鈥檚 become a perennial issue in the Missouri legislature utility line.
- Where the state should spend coronavirus relief money from what鈥檚 known as the American Rescue Plan. One potential use of the money could be to expand the
- His about the Rock Island Trail being converted into a state park.
Hawkins is a beef cattle farmer from Appleton City in St. Clair County. He was elected , who had served as the head of the bureau since 2010.
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