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Podcast: MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON
Episode: Cooperative Network Explains The Affordable Care Act Debate
Description: Thereβs a political battle underway over health care subsidies, and itβs leaving rural Wisconsin at a crossroads. Here with some perspective is Ben Nelson, the new executive director of the Cooperative Network. CN is the trade association that supports cooperatives across Wisconsin and Minnesota across all sectors, including agriculture, energy, and rural economic development. Ben has a 20-year career behind him in the economic growth space, most of that time in Wisconsin. He actually grew up on a deer farm, but most recently, he was the executive director of the Kewaunee County Economic Development Corp. Before Ben and...