Private property rights and taxes dominated the policy meetings at the NDFB Annual Meeting. Public Policy Director Pete Hannebutt said these issues will be advanced to the national level. The NDFB policy book will cover the organization’s priorities “at the courthouse, at the State House and in the White House.” Hannebutt said Farm Bureau is about less regulation, less taxes and more trade, more opportunities in a free market system. “We’ll hope to have a friendlier administration for agriculture with the new (Trump) administration coming in and we hope that we will not be cursed with burdensome regulation as we’ve seen in the last four years.”
