Our Secretary of Agriculture made an appearance here at Commodity Classic. He took the stage after we heard from political analyst Charlie Cook who provided a pretty clear analysis of where we’re at with the Presidential campaign.

I like the way session moderator John Phipps, U. S. Farm Report, described our Secretary as the “closer” following up on the work of Bush Administration Secretary Mike Johanns and interim Chuck Conner. Schafer talked about the farm bill of course and from the sound of it we’re getting closer to an agreement but I know we keep hearing that and so far we don’t have one. I didn’t hear anything new that we haven’t heard before but you are welcome to listen for yourself.

You can listen to Secretary Schafer’s speech here: cc-08-schafer.mp3

USDA released a document (Word doc) “developed from Administration analysis of impacts to current USDA programs – in the absence of enactment of a new farm bill or an extension of the 2002 farm bill past March 15, 2008.” It’s nice to have a “just in case.”

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