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Getty Images/iStock Photos $2 trillion American Jobs Plan looks to invest in rural bridges, improve waterways and expand rural broadband access. President Joe Biden proposed on Wednesday his next major initiative – the American Jobs Plan – which would invest $2 trillion, about 1% of GDP per year over eight years, to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure, revitalize manufacturing, invest in basic research and science and shore up supply chains. He pays for the in...

As 2020 came to an end, WRDA 2020 was passed and signed into law.

Ag interests received welcomed news with the passage of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020, which was included in the year-end funding bill. The nation’s inland waterways system is critical to the U.S. agriculture industry and economy overall, and this legislation promises to modernize and rehabilitate the system, while helping to significantly reduce the backlog of authorized projects. Bobby Frederick, National Grain and Feed Association’s vice president of legislative affairs and...