Evocati PR Client NPC Continues to Raise Alarm on Pending Government Shutdown
CEO Kam Quarles joined multiple networks to discuss the Farm Bill in the wake of the removal of the Speaker of the House and looming threat of a government shutdown.
Our client at the National Potato Council continues to advocate for growers in light of the uncertainty over who the next Speaker of the House will be and stop-gap funding for the federal government that ends next month. Our efforts led to multiple earned media hits in response.
Featured on the Red River Farm Network, Brownfield Ag News, and the Western Ag Network, Kam Quarles, NPC CEO, has been busy discussing what this tumultuous political landscape means for potato growers, specialty crop growers, and the ag industry.
Pictured left, NPC CEO Kam Quarles participates in a media roundtable during NPC’s 2023 Washington Summit. (Source: Evocati PR)
In response to the Speaker's historic removal, NPC's CEO noted, "Working across the aisle is grounds for removal," said Quarles in an interview with Brownfield Ag. News. When discussing big spending bills in the chute like the Farm Bill and government funding, he said, "Those are going to be pieces of legislation that a new Speaker has got to think long and hard about if they want to get them across the House floor and still keep their job."
With the fate of these funding measures and national programs in peril, organizations like NPC are continuing to raise the alarm and make their voices heard to protect potato growers and the ag industry at large. “I think everybody in agriculture has got to be pounding the table saying we have to have that farm bill done, regardless of this environment,” said Quarles in an interview with The Packer.