Max Armstrong shares insight on farmers traveling to Washington, D.C., to exercise their rights to lobby. Max offers a look at groups including the National Pork Producers Council who will fly in to meet with members of Congress this fall as part of its Legislative Action Conference in September. American Farm Bureau leaders will also be in Washington in September. Max shares that in his experience he’s noticed that lawmakers are interested in what farmers have to say.

Max Armstrong's Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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