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Corporate Environmentalism is Generating Big Green
Want to Know How Your Charitable Donations really Work?   By Stefanie Smallhouse, Arizona Farm Bureau Second Vice President This is the time of year when the dining room table is buried in paper. We pore over receipts, notes scribbled on the checkbook, cancelled checks, deposit records, and of...
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Published 13 hours ago

New Report: Rural Midwest Must Reinvent Itself to Compete in Global Economy
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released a report today that says the rural Midwest must “move past silos and smokestacks” to reinvent itself and compete in the global economy. The report calls on towns and counties, competing with each other for industry and manufacturing jobs and...
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Published 19 hours ago

Idaho First to Sign Law Aimed at Health Care Plan
Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance. Similar legislation is pending in 37...
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Published 2 days ago

Jolley: Pacelle, Yellow Tail & Mary Kay �" What a Tangled Web We Weave
With millions of people chattering constantly on social web sites, it’s impossible to fool all of the people all of the time. Some of the time, maybe. The problem, of course, is people will find out about little excursions with the truth and they get very angry when they do. People who play...
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Published 3 days ago

Picking Apart the CBS Antibiotic Story: Tell Us a Tale, Katie Anne
Written by Mike Smith, Tell Us a Tale Katie Anne is a must read. Will reveal the motivation behind the CBS Antibiotic piece featured a few weeks ago.
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Published 3 days ago

Farm and Rural Life Poll: The Next Generation of Farmers
The Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll is an annual survey that collects and disseminates information on issues of importance to rural communities across Iowa and the Midwest. Conducted every year since its establishment in 1982, the Farm Poll is the longest-running survey of its kind in the nation....
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Published 4 days ago

Holder Wants Action on Agriculture Concentration
Attorney General Eric Holder raised expectations among farmers that the Obama administration will crack down on concentration within agriculture, an industry where the processing of meat, milk and seed are dominated by handfuls of companies.Speaking to a packed auditorium holding hundreds of...
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Published 5 days ago

Young Farmers and Ranchers Turn to Optimism Reservoir
  By John Hart, American Farm Bureau Federation Of all the traits it takes to be a successful farmer or rancher, optimism may be the most important. Technological advances have made the task of producing crops and livestock easier, but there are still many obstacles that make farming and...
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Published a week ago

In the Beginning … We Were all Naked Vegetarians
Well, at least Adam and Eve   By Julie Murphree Today’s American food debate, specifically about meat protein, has so far come off like a one-sided discourse. Really, a lecture. The lecture comes from the self-appointed apostles of the meat-free food movement. Often using misinformation,...
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Published a week ago

Agricultural Productivity is Critical
By Stewart Truelsen, American Farm Bureau Federation The president’s 2010 budget proposal calls for canceling NASA’s Constellation program to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020. In these tough economic times it is harder to justify sending astronauts into space.    Agriculture is...
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Published 2 weeks ago