03/10/2010 03:02PM
According to Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., the Japanese should learn a lesson from how America has treated Japan fairly after reports of faulty Toyota vehicles and parts and should lift the ban on "safe U.S. beef and beef product" in response.
03/10/2010 01:56PM
"Agriculture is a business. Farming without a financial motive is gardening."
On a daily basis, it seems, Americans are given another reason to be fearful of their food. Media outlets - print, broadcast and online - constantly produce stories about the hidden dangers of the modern food system.
03/10/2010 01:14PM
“‘American exceptionalism’ is the notion that the United States occupies a special niche in the world in terms of its political, economic and historic development. Consistent with this notion is the unparalleled productivity and efficiency of America's food and agricultural system, as evidenced by the enviable bounty of our nation's Corn Belt,” says AMI President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle in a guest editorial in today’s The Des Moines Register.
03/10/2010 10:08AM
An Amish livestock farmer who refused to follow a 2005 Wisconsin law requiring him to register his land and livestock has won a legal battle with state regulators.
03/10/2010 09:21AM
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, discussed budget cuts, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and the value of production agriculture at the annual Kansas Farm Bureau Delegation Dinner in Washington:
“Total U.S. national debt is at $14 trillion,” Roberts said. “You’re fed up with it, I’m fed up with it, and the vast majority of taxpayers are fed up with it.