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With ballots to be counted and recounted and multiple lawsuits filed, we don’t know who will be in the White House and, by extension, leading the USDA next year. We do know there will be change atop congressional committees with oversight on agriculture.

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Valene Lickley and Katharine Lotspeich are the co-hosts of the Millennial Ag podcast. Editor Walt Cooley interviewed them as they approached the one-year anniversary of the launch of their podcast. The mantra of their podcast is that no topic is off-limits.

In contrast to milk price volatility, average U.S. prices paid for dairy replacement cows have been fairly steady, based on the USDA’s quarterly estimates, released Oct. 30.