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 …
Immigration Key Issue of 2007 Ag Symposium
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 …
FarmPolicy.com Publisher Blogging From Europe
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 …
The Wyant Perspective
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 …
Farm and Food Policy Project
It looks like there’s a new player in the farm policy game. The Farm and Food Policy Project will be conducting a press conference in Washington, DC on Monday, January 22 to release a report titled, “Seeking Balance in U.S. Farm and Food Policy.”
FarmPolicy Blogger Starts Interviewing
My man Keith Good just keeps getting gooder. Now he’s using audio and making interviews on FarmPolicy available on a new blog site called Ag Policy Soup.
Farm Policy on the German Marshall Fund
Remember Keith Good? He was writing a regular feature here on AgWired on Farm Policy. Well one of the reasons he’s not is because of his Journalism Fellowship with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, providing Analytical news updates covering Trade, Agriculture and Development. They’re posted every Monday and Thursday.
Thank You Keith Good
I’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).
Ethanol & Global Hunger
As 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.
Politics & Renewable Energy
It 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