Michigan Agri-Business Association President Chuck Lippstreu recently joined Michigan Chamber of Commerce CEO Jim Holcomb and Michigan Farm Bureau President Carl Bednarski for a wide-ranging conversation about Michigan’s agriculture sector.
Recorded in late 2023, the Michigan Matters Podcast episode was posted March 1, in concert with the beginning of Food and Agriculture Month in Michigan. You can listen here.
Here are a few key points and comments from Lippstreu during the episode. This is an automatic transcript lightly edited by MABA.
February 16, 2024 | The Michigan Agri-Business Association this week partnered with the Michigan Soybean Committee and Michigan Soybean Association to host our first Ag Club breakfast of 2024.
The event brought together more than 100 partners, government leaders and MABA members in downtown Lansing for networking, and a briefing on soybean production and market opportunities. Soybeans play a critical role in the strength of Michigan agriculture and our rural economy, and we were glad to help spotlight the industry this week!
Here are some photos from the event:
February 13, 2024 | MABA is proud to have recently launched an updated, streamlined and improved website at www.miagbiz.org!
The redesign of this site comes on the heels of the Fall 2023 launch of a revised online payment and invoice tracking system for MABA members. It’s part of a broader effort to continually improve, and ensure top-notch service for all of our association’s members and partners.
We look forward to sharing additional announcements throughout 2024 as we continue to streamline and grow our member services, outreach efforts and advocacy.
The new website:
Please contact any member of the MABA staff with questions and suggestions.
February 9, 2024 | The Michigan Agri-Business Association shares the concerns voiced by U.S. farm and rural business leaders following this week’s Federal court ruling vacating the registration for over-the-top applications of dicamba on dicamba-tolerant crops. The ruling comes at an extremely difficult time as soybean growers have already established plans for the 2024 growing season.
We encourage MABA members to review two letters sent this week to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the Agricultural Retailers Association, one of MABA’s national-level partners, and the American Soybean Association. MABA echoes the concerns voiced in these letters and the call for EPA to implement as broad of an existing stocks policy as possible.
Ag Retailers Association Letter to EPA Concerning Dicamba Ruling
American Soybean Association Letter to EPA: We need a dicamba existing stocks order stat!
MABA will update members as more information becomes available from federal and state authorities on the impacts of this ruling.
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