The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance board is in session in New York City. I’m in the audience right now and will be featuring some thoughts from various members of the board while I’m here. We’ll be taking a break to attend The Food Dialogues which will be a live web stream featuring three different panel discussions. It will start at 10am eastern time and conclude at 3:30pm. The panel topics include: Media, Marketing and Healthy Choices; Your Toughest Questions Answered on Antibiotics in Your Food; Your Toughest Questions Answered on Biotechnology (GMOs) in Your Food.

To get some perspective from a couple of the USFRA board members I spoke with Weldon Wynn who represents the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and Craig Uden who represents the Federation of State Beef Councils.

Weldon says New York and the east coast is “where the people are.” He says we’re here to “let the nation know what safe and unique farm products that we do have.”

You can listen to my interview with Weldon here: Interview with Weldon Wynn

Craig says there are so many people who are so far removed from the production of food that there is a big need to provide them with good information. He says “We’re going to sit down with these folks on today’s Dialogues and show them what modern agriculture is about.”

You can listen to my interview with Craig here: Interview with Craig Uden

I’m collecting photos from the USFRA board meeting and Food Dialogues here: 2012 USFRA Annual Mtg. & Food Dialogues Photo Album