Our former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is now running for the office of U.S. Senate and he’s still great talking about agriculture on stage.
Here he is at the Alltech Symposium. The debate was for the most part very cordial. I think Johanns did a very good job of addressing the questions and talking to the issues in a very direct way.
To give you a taste of it I’ve got his answer here to the first question from Alltech’s VP, Aidan Connolly: alltech-symposium-08-johanns.mp3
The debate session was over an hour long and followed by a press conference where the issues of food vs. fuel and farm subsidies came up again. The bottom line from all three presenters seemed to be that the market and farmers will rise to meet demand and that new technologies are here now and not off in the future. No one’s starving because of biofuels. No one will.