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Risk management tools especially valuable this year
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REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- This could be one of the years when farm support programs are...
Let’s feed ourselves vegetables, too
Squeeze almost any official of almost any agbiz or farm group and the words “Feed the world” will cross their lips. The phrase is...
Farm and Food File: One + one is still two (except in D.C.)
Politicians are so good at the muddled math of their budget game that they can turn the equation upside down and make it work in reverse: $1 of budget savings today can be legislated into $2 of tax cuts tomorrow.
‘… to operate as needed’ is not what’s needed for many farmers
Farm groups, commodity organizations and most ag checkoffs have spent 25 years and billions dollars refining and repeating their modern message: American agriculture is...
State-inspected meat processors soon will welcome interstate sales
Farm bill provision to allow interstate marketing of state-inspected meat is becoming a reality.
Mississippi River watershed could be model for world
A regional/national initiative to address the sustainability of the Mississippi River basin, which is critical to the country and the world, can serve as an international model for the sustainability of other rivers.
Cleaning my desk uncovers more dirt
Forget the past week’s winter weather. The calendar called for spring a couple of weeks ago so, fact is, it’s spring. That means it’s...
Blame game won’t feed the world
Rising food prices. Everyone's talking about them. And everyone's pointing fingers of blame.It's the ethanol industry. No, it's the processors. It's the retailers. No,...
Dairy Policy Action Coalition goals
Here are some of the things DPAC wants to accomplish. More is available on their website. To view the news story that goes with...
Real ag agenda seems to be football and pheasants
In Congress, the House aggies aren't exactly tied up with policy debates to address, say, today's soaring food prices, the nation's perilously thin food stocks or a dysfunctional federal dairy policy.
