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Finding new and improved ways to achieve optimum food and fiber production with a minimal environmental footprint is as much of an art as it is a science.

Ever since the first farm bills in the 1930s, legislation to help agriculture has been concerned about not only production but also stewardship.

Traditional farm program supports are about to come to an end. Freedom to Farm and price support are going away.

Obesity has emerged as our nation’s No. 1 public health problem with dire consequences for our nation if solutions cannot be found.

Agriculture has always been the bedrock of our society. With our global population exploding in the coming decades, agriculture will continue to be of central importance in addressing our food, feed, fiber and fuel needs.

The critical question of what will happen to agriculture in the new millennia under the predictable challenges coming from population increase, climate change, resource depletion and energy insecurity has recently emerged as a point of urgent attention.

We need a new mindset that understands that conservation and productivity are not adversaries but partners. That means focusing our limited conservation funds on working lands.

If you want to protect farmland, keep farmers farming

The top priority in this business cycle is to keep the economy in recovery.

The President was joined by several member of his Cabinet