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28 Feb

Posted at 12:21h in Industry News, Regulatory
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced the selection of ten geographically varied roundtables with participants representing diverse perspectives. The agencies will work with each selected roundtable to facilitate discussion on implementation of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), while highlighting regional differences. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced the selection of ten geographically varied roundtables with participants representing diverse perspectives. The agencies will work with each selected roundtable to facilitate discussion on implementation...

25 Feb

Posted at 13:42h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 7 (Turnaround) This was Turnaround week in the Kansas legislature, where the House and Senate debated dozens of bills before adjourning on Wednesday afternoon. Any bill that was either not passed by its chamber of origin by Wednesday, or is otherwise exempt, will no longer be an active bill this session. This week, the House passed and sent 29 bills to the Senate, and the Senate sent 37 bills to the House. The legislature will return to work next Tuesday to begin further consideration of bills. The major issues remaining for the session include various...

21 Feb

Posted at 08:30h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 6 The Legislature passed a Republican-friendly Congressional redistricting map last week (Sub Senate Bill 355), overriding Governor Laura Kelly’s veto. As anticipated, multiple legal challenges to the bill were filed. Major floor action in the House this week included the attempted passage of a resolution on a proposed constitutional amendment giving the Legislature oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies. The vote failed to gain the super majority votes required to pass, but it will likely come up for reconsideration on Monday. In the Senate, the Senate Tax Committee passed a large bill full...

15 Feb

Posted at 12:01h in Industry News
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Full Name, Age.Alex Gerard, 39 Job title, company, town.Area Manager, Gavilon Grain, Wichita, KS What does your company specialize in? Gavilon connects producers and consumers of feed, food and fuel, linking agricultural supply with demand through its global supply chain network. What services/products does your company provide?We provide origination, storage and handling, transportation and logistics, marketing and distribution, and risk management services to customers and suppliers across the globe. What is something unique about your company/location? Gavilon Wichita is one of the largest single headhouse grain elevators in the U.S. How long have...

14 Feb

Posted at 09:47h in Industry News
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Kansas Grain and Feed Association is proud to welcome Clay Fagan and Trisha Fassnacht to its team, while announcing the promotion of Sidney Storey to director of event planning to begin 2022. Fagan joins the association as its director of member investment and training; Fassnacht as administrative assistant; while Storey steps into the event planning role vacated by the retirement of longtime KGFA employee Shari Bennett. "We are thrilled to welcome Clay and Trisha to our team," KGFA President and CEO Ron Seeber said. "In the short time they've spent with us we've been pleased with their...

14 Feb

Posted at 08:45h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 5 This week saw the override of Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a Republican-friendly map (Sub Senate Bill 355) that will draw new lines for the state’s four Congressional districts. It is assumed that legal challenges to the bill will follow. Following much consternation over the congressional map veto override vote, Senate President Ty Masterson removed two Republican senators from their committee leadership positions. Masterson also removed Senator Mark Steffen of Hutchinson from his vice chairmanship of the senate commerce committee and from his seat on the senate tax committee. In addition, the House...

07 Feb

Posted at 08:14h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 4 This week, the legislature took a day of hiatus when winter storms were predicted to bring heavy snow to the capitol city. On Thursday, as predicted, Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a Republican-friendly map that would have drawn new lines for the state’s four Congressional districts. The House got bogged down in deliberation over the Kelly Administration’s economic development bill aimed at bringing a large national corporate headquarters to the state with a specified capital investment of at least $1,000,000,000. Next week, a legislative committee will consider a bill that would transfer $1 billion from the...

31 Jan

Posted at 07:11h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 3 This week, the Legislature passed a map drawing new lines for the state’s four Congressional districts, held hearings on various bills proposing to exempt “food” from states sales tax, and advanced an economic development bill that would provide for incentives for specified industries to establish their national corporate headquarters in the state with specified capital investment of at least $1,000,000,000. In addition, the Committees on Agriculture received annual reports from the state commodity commissions, and the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on a bill making it unlawful to capture or possess an ornate box...

24 Jan

Posted at 08:32h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 2 This week, the Legislature worked through bills and hearings, even while many legislators were absent due to positive COVID tests. The Senate passed a few bills of high importance, as the House also began initial committee work. Here are some of the highlights of the week. KDA Grain Warehouse Program Budget Enhancement In 2021, as part of an agreement with KDA to allow for increased fees on Kansas licensed commercial grain warehouses, KGFA requested, and received, an additional $60k in SGF for KDA’s grain warehouse program to pay for an additional...

17 Jan

Posted at 08:55h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session Commences The Kansas legislature gaveled in on Monday, January 10, 2022, and your Association’s government affairs staff was at the capitol monitoring and weighing in on bills affecting our industry. It was a busy week in Topeka which saw hearings on various tax issues related to wildfires in the state and Governor Laura Kelly’s State of the State address. Key issues this session will include reapportionment and redistricting following the 2020 census, a Senate vote on the “Value Them Both” constitutional amendment question on abortion, possible legalization of medical marijuana, and deliberation of how to most appropriately spend the...

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