Newly confirmed Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was invited, as every one of his predecessors has been, to speak at the Opening General Session of the Cattle Industry Annual Convention. I’ve been in Phoenix a couple of days now covering the annual meeting of the nation’s beef industry organizations, and many of us fully expected […]
Much to the chagrin of my friends and coworkers, I am spending the week in Phoenix, Arizona at the Cattle Industry Annual Convention. This is the annual meeting and policy making session of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, and the American National Cattlewomen. These are great organizations, and this is a […]
Our friend and farm broadcast colleague Gary Truitt reports on movements by the most dangerous organization in the United States to invade the Midwest. After tackling less agriculturally intensive states over the past four or five years with ballot initiatives seeking to destroy animal agriculture, the Humane Society of the US (HSUS) took a shot […]
My good friend Ed Winkle shared some thoughts on his blog this morning regarding the ongoing “family feud” in the soybean industry between the American Soybean Association, the United Soybean Board, the US Department of Agriculture, and the newly-formed United States Soybean Federation. Confused? For context, go back to our Lindsay Hill’s on-the-spot reporting from […]
I’m writing this from Deep in the Heart of Texas, literally two blocks from the Alamo. Over 5,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation, including nearly 200 Ohioans, are gathered in San Antonio for the 90th Annual Meeting of the Federation. A celebration of 90 years is quite a milestone in the life of […]
Lindsay and I are sitting in Chicago’s Midway airport in the (we hope) final hour of a three-hour layover on our way home from the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation in San Antonio. Our week Deep in the Heart of Texas has been very rewarding on a number of fronts. Most […]
You may never have heard the name Cliff Mitchell, but for rural residents around Albany, Minnesota, Colonel Cliff has been a part of daily life for 56 years. Cliff is a farm broadcaster, and has been serving the listeners of KASM-AM in Albany since 1952. This living legend has hung up his headphones, and an […]
