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It was a pleasure to see and talk to the delegation of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters that came to town this week. It is a good thing to come to the nation’s capital and…

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Last weekend, with our corn all planted in record time, I went out to Montana. My 16-year-old daughter and I went to a horse ranch – Montana Horses’ annual horse drive. Those…

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What a difference a year makes. We’re all but finished planting our corn already. We didn’t finish last year until June. We didn’t finish harvest last year until Christmas. My father…

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What about immigration? Is the Congress going to try to address this difficult and polarizing issue this year?

William Siegel, a Trustee of the Hudson Institute, has put forth a…

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Walk down any street in almost any city in the U.S. and you will see too many people that are clearly overweight. Some are just plain fat. That’s not healthy. The obesity rate is up…

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President Obama has set an ambitious goal of doubling our exports and creating 2 million jobs in the next 5 years. That’s very encouraging. We need to do something about jobs with a…

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Last week was “Ag Week” – a time to celebrate the enormous contribution that farmers, ranchers, and the whole of the ag industry bring to this country and the world. I don’t recall a time…

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As we fought the weather challenge last fall, I couldn’t help but marvel at how the corn was still standing like trees – straight and tall. It was almost Christmas. Thirty or forty years…

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Today, I have 2 issues that I want to talk about. And they are Cuba and Toyota. What do they have to do with American agriculture? I will explain.

Issue number 1 – Cuba – this week, the…

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Last week, I stopped by the office of House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson. I didn’t have any agenda. I just wanted to thank him for his leadership and effort to represent the…

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