AOA Thursday 12-18-2025

Thursday on AOA, we start the show with a look at the newly released Consumer Price Index data along with analysis of the crude oil, grain and livestock markets with Mike Zuzolo from Global Commodity Analytics. In Segment Two, we talk with Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper about the EPA delay on 2026 and 2027 RVO blending requirements, the latest on year-round E15 legislation and the USTR Section 301 investigation into China's Phase One agreement. In Segment Three, we discuss the Farmer Bridge Assistance package and how it will help the rice industry along with insight into trade and rice dumping issues by other countries. Meryl Kennedy, Founder and CEO of Kennedy Rice Mill joins us for that conversation. Then we close the show in Segment Four and hear a conversation with Brandon Walter, U.S. Corn Marketing Lead for Pioneer, that we recorded at the 2025 NAFB Convention.