Weekly Links 3-16

Posted by Chad Vorthmann on Mar 16, 2012 in Weekly Links | 0 comments

  Is Perception Reality? Improving Agricultural Messages by Discovering How Consumers Perceive Messages Journal of Applied Communications This study assessed how consumers interpret agricultural messages typically found on commodity organizations’ websites in Florida. ‘Spite effect’ drives crazy land sales Successful Farming The continued spike in farm land values continues...

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Farm Bureau Favors Strong, Fiscally Sound Farm Policy

Posted by Chad Vorthmann on Mar 16, 2012 in Ag/Food Industry, National Affairs | 0 comments

National farm policy must strike a balance between the need for a strong, effective safety net to protect farmers and ranchers against catastrophic revenue losses and fiscal soundness for the nation, the American Farm Bureau Federation told Congress on Thursday. “The new farm bill must be a fiscally responsible package that meets spending reduction targets and assures taxpayers that...

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Farm States Helping Lead Nation Out of Recession

Posted by Chad Vorthmann on Mar 16, 2012 in Ag/Food Industry, Markets | 0 comments

According to John Whitaker, executive director of FSA, farmers and ranchers are a bright spot in the nation’s economic recovery. “It is agriculture in the Midwest that is helping lead the national economy out of one of the worst, or the worst recessions since the Great Depression,” Whitaker said in a Nebraska Radio Network interview. Many states with agriculture-based economies have...

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AFBF Supports Farm Truck Measures in Transportation Bill

Posted by Chad Vorthmann on Mar 13, 2012 in Featured, National Affairs | 0 comments

The American Farm Bureau Federation is supporting measures to make certain farm vehicles exempt from federal motor vehicle regulations that are appropriately aimed at the long-haul trucking industry. AFBF is urging senators to support two amendments to the pending transportation bill (S. 1813). The first amendment, introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), would provide an exemption for farm...

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Beef Industry Gets Slimed

Posted by Chad Vorthmann on Mar 12, 2012 in Ag/Food Industry, Featured, Food Safety | 2 comments

News stories last week reported that as much as 70 percent of the ground beef sold in grocery stores contains so-called “pink slime” as filler. The epithet was coined by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and two Food Safety and Inspection Service whistleblowers who are campaigning against the industry’s use of lean beef trimmings. According to the National Meat Association and American Meat...

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