The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association maintains exemptions for family-owned businesses in the proposed changes to federal tax code will not protect the majority of agricultural producers.
Danielle Beck is senior executive director, government affairs, with NCBA. “Certain progressives claim they’re trying to target the Bill and Melinda Gates of the world from owning x percentage of agricultural land,” Beck says. “They want this to target the millionaires and billionaires out there but the way this could be written it will implicate all of the family owned operations in this country.”
She tells Brownfield the group was disappointed in Ag Secretary Vilsack’s recent support of the President’s plan.
