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Environmental Defense Ruminates on Farm Policy

Chuck Zimmerman

The Environmental Defense group now has a farm policy blog called “The Ruminant.” It’s written by Scott Faber who manages the Healthy Farms, Healthy Food Campaign for Environmental Defense. The slogan for the site is “A daily update on the debates shaping the 2007 Farm Bill.” Thanks to Meg Little for bringing it to my attention. They also have a …

Environment, Farm Policy, Podcasts

Immigration Key Issue of 2007 Ag Symposium

Laura McNamara

A host of women in the agriculture industry will converge on Washington the week of June 10th for the annual American Agri-Women Agricultural Issues Symposium and Fly-in. This year’s symposium will be centered around immigration reform within the realm of agriculture. Members of the media and all interested parties are invited to attend the 15th Annual Agricultural Issues Symposium on …

Ag Groups, Ag Media Summit, Agribusiness, Farm Policy

FarmPolicy.com Publisher Blogging From Europe

Chuck Zimmerman

Farm Policy blogger Keith Good is really getting into it and doing a great job. I’ve been watching him blog from a European trip he’s on sponsored by the German Marshall Fund (EU Journalism Study Tour). He’s posting pictures like this one of Ursula Soyez, a Program Officer with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and Charles …

Farm Policy, International

The Wyant Perspective

Chuck Zimmerman

Kind of sounds like a new Robert Ludlum novel doesn’t it? It’s actually a Commodity Classic Learning Center session on “Perspectives on the 2007 Farm Bill” that was sponsored by John Deere. Sara Wyant, Agri-Pulse Communications, was the moderator of a panel on this subject that featured Mark Halverson, Democratic Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Senate Committee on …

Audio, BASF, Commodity Classic, Farm Policy, New Holland

Thank You Keith Good

Chuck Zimmerman

FarmPolicy.comI’m going to make a couple of remarks about Keith Good. The post before this is Keith’s weekly Tuesday farm trade and policy post that he’s been doing for months on AgWired. However, it’s his last one (although I’m thinking we haven’t heard the last from him).

Farm Policy

Ethanol & Global Hunger

Keith Good

FarmPolicy.comAs domestic ethanol production continues to grow, agricultural observers can quickly and easily see many of the potential benefits: increased investment in the rural economy, environmental benefits of using a renewable fuel, and increased demand for corn, which can lead to higher incomes for corn growers.

Farm Policy

Politics & Renewable Energy

Keith Good

FarmPolicy.comIt is never too early to talk about the next presidential election and the Iowa Caucuses, where rural and agricultural issues often get more media focus.

One area of particular interest that politicians often refer to when traveling in Iowa, or preparing to campaign there, is ethanol and renewable energy

Farm Policy