The list of people on President-elect Donald Trump’s agricultural advisory committee skirts around Minnesota.

Leading the 60-plus member committee is a fifth-generation beef farmer from Nebraska.

FOR THE GOOD OF AGRICULTURE: How will issues evolve over the next four years that affect U.S. agriculture, such as trade, environmental regulations, renewable energy and climate change? Time will tell.

Other committee members include governors, past and present, from Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Georgia and Texas; ag commissioners from Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas; congressmen from Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and Virginia; state lawmakers from Georgia, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina and Wyoming; a Kansas wheat farmer; an Iowa soybean farmer; a California wine producer; a Tennessee cotton grower; dairy and egg producers from Indiana; and from Texas, a cattleman and the state’s “official cowboy poet.”

No representation from current Farm Bureau or Farmers Union leadership at state or national levels (or if there is, they are not wearing those “hats” in the Trump press release).

There is no representation from Minnesota.

Not even a representative of the Minnesota "ag mafia" that gathers at Farmfest each year was chosen.

Needless to say, this is very disappointing — yet not surprising. Minnesota Republicans chose Marco Rubio as their candidate on Super Tuesday. Trump finished in third place, his worst showing that day.

Vocal supporters of Trump from the get-go are getting rewarded with positions here and there.

It’s politics as usual, folks.