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I am so tired of all this talk about jumpstarting the nation’s economy. Members of Congress are talking. President Obama talks all the time. “I’ll double exports in 5 years.” Talk, talk, talk.…

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The “dog days of summer” are almost behind us.  Harvest will be picking up steam as we go into the fall.  We already know that, as a nation, our total production is going to be…

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The political conflicts here in this town have made Washington, D.C. hard to live with. So last week, I headed to the farm in Illinois. My escape. I couldn’t believe it – the minute I arrived,…

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For more than a year now, the big city press has had ethanol in their cross hairs. They blame the increase in food prices on the fact that part of our corn crop is processed into fuel. The hot,…

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Last week, my family and I visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. A lot of memories came flowing back about my days serving as his Secretary of Agriculture. We lifted the…

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Hello everybody out there in farm country. This radio commentary is brought to you by the Renewable Fuels Association, Wal-Mart Stores, Monsanto, and John Deere. They are all friends, supporters, and allies of a healthy farm economy and prosperous rural America. Thank you.

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Congress is scheduled to write a new farm bill next year. It’s not going to be a carbon copy of the one we operate under today. Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack said, “The old days are…

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E. coli contaminated foods and food safety have been in the headlines of late. With that threat in mind, you might think that a company doing something to protect the consumer from food borne…

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Hello everybody out there in farm country. John Block is on holiday this week; I’m Rick Frank sitting in. This radio commentary is brought to you by the Renewable Fuels Association, Wal-Mart Stores, Monsanto, and John Deere. They are all friends, supporters, and allies of a healthy farm economy and prosperous rural America. Thank you.

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Over the past 35 years, I have acted as food safety counsel to a wide array of agriculture interests in the United States…

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What to talk about this week?  Farm prices are good – corn, soy beans, hogs, cattle.  Not much to complain about.  We just have to worry about the weather. 

Right now, the debt…

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It’s almost every other word out of their mouths.  The President and Members of Congress talk about jobs all the time.  President Obama is bragging about crating 2 million new…

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