Collin Peterson named Ag Person of the Year

ProFarmer has named former Congressman Collin Peterson one of their Ag Persons of 2021. See the story here

Former House Ag Committee Chair Collin Peterson is our other choice for ag person of the year. Why? By far the biggest policy threat to ag was the potential elimination of stepped-up basis. Peterson couldn’t directly lobby but he did pick up the pen and articulate to readers, including lawmakers, how seriously damaging this would be. His opeds got a lot of traction. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) was a key GOP point man on the issue and Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) eventually weighed in. But Collin got the ball rolling. Peterson also forcefully argued that Democrats should not mandate greenhouse gas or methane emission reductions through Clean Air Act or new legislation, including the social spending/Build Back Better (BBB) Act. He stated that it would set back efforts by decades. And Democrats listened.