<p><span>It is great to be here together today for this meeting of the Agricultural Advisory Committee. Thank you to all of the members for making the effort to come to the CFTC today. It makes a difference to be here together to hear your thoughts. Thank you Chairman Behnam and Brigitte Weyls for bringing us together to talk about important issues and challenges faced by our agricultural community.</span></p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>Good morning and welcome to the first Agricultural Advisory Committee (AAC) meeting of 2022 under my sponsorship. The AAC fortifies the strong connection between the CFTC and its historic responsibilities in ensuring that America’s farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and other commercial end-users continue to have cost-effective access to CFTC regulated markets to manage risk, and provides an active forum to discuss and address emerging issues and impacts to the agricultural markets in near real-time.</p>
<p><span>The Agricultural Advisory Committee (AAC) today released the agenda for its public meeting that will be held on December 7 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. (EST) at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. Chairman Rostin Behnam is the sponsor of the AAC.</span></p>
Washington, D.C. The Agricultural Advisory Committee (AAC) today released the agenda for its public meeting that will be held on December 7 from 9:00 a.m.