Right-click on the audio player below to download audio."Disappointing" is one way to look at the farm bill extension; it threw away years worth of work by trade groups, industry figures and lawmakers in attempting to reform the 2008 farm policy, and instead opted to...
Right-click the audio player below to download audio.Most ag groups wanted a five-year farm bill instead of the extension we received as part of the fiscal cliff package. The Iowa Soybean Association is no exception, however ISA President Mark Jackson says there were...
Right-click on the audio players below to download audio.Last summer the nation's first E15 pumps went in at the Zarco 66 station in Lawrence, Kansas. Since then, retailers have popped up here and there throughout the Midwest.On January 2, Iowa saw a new station to...
Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.Even with a bill authorizing an extension of current farm policy until September 30, 2013, certainty is still elusive. Senator Chuck Grassley says a five-year farm bill is coming, and that in spite of the House's...
Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.With animal welfare groups pushing pork producers to change production methods, who's going to foot the bill?National Pork Board CEO Chris Novak says no matter what the case, it's consumers. While groups like the...
Audio courtesy Rod Bain with USDA.Right-click on audio player below to download audio.In spite of higher commodity prices, USDA Economist Ricky Volpe says this year's food prices (measured as the food-at-home Consumer Price Index or CPI) have stayed flat overall. In...
Audio courtesy of Rod Bain with USDA.Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.With industry officials claiming that milk prices could jump to nearly double their current level on the first of the year, some might think that's good news for the dairy...
Image courtesy of the Humane Society of the United States.Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.With a full-bus ad asking viewers if they'd like to "spend the rest of [their lives] in a space as small as a bus seat?" the Humane Society of the United...
In a teleconference Wednesday, Senator Chuck Grassley said he doubts a fiscal cliff package will happen by the end of the year, which will push the issue of a new farm bill into the laps of the 113th Congress.Your browser does not support the audio tag.
We've spoken to some pork producers who are concerned that the Humane Society of the United States has an agenda not to help or fix the pork industry, but to destroy it. HSUS President and CEO Wayne Pacelle shares what he would say to a concerned hog farmer.Your...
