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Farm Hands on the Potomac....

08/30/17 6:00 AM By Agri-Pulse staff

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2017 - Polly Ruhland will be the next CEO of the United Soybean Board, effective Nov. 1. Ruhland will succeed John Becherer, who plans to retire at the end of the year after 23 years of service to the checkoff. Ruhland is currently the chief executive of the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board.

Rural Telehealth: Plenty of benefits, but big barriers remain

07/26/17 6:41 AM By Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, July 26, 207 - With rural hospitals at risk of closure and healthcare providers increasingly abandoning sparsely populated areas, residents in vast swaths of the country often must drive for hours and take time off from work to see a doctor or medical specialist.

Farm Hands on the Potomac...July 19, 2017

07/19/17 6:01 AM By Agri-Pulse staff

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - It’s official. President Trump has nominated the American Soybean Association’s longtime CEO, Steve Censky, to be deputy agriculture secretary.

What does GOP healthcare bill mean for rural America?

06/28/17 6:25 AM By Jonathan H. Harsch

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - “Affordable access to quality health coverage is a high priority for all Americans, especially farmers and ranchers.”

Farm Hands on the Potomac…June 28, 2017

06/28/17 6:00 AM By Agri-Pulse staff

DES MOINES, June 28, 2017 - Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, is the winner of the 2017 World Food Prize.

Perdue: Can’t ‘sugar coat’ Trump budget cuts to farm bill funding

05/24/17 12:38 PM By Philip Brasher

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - President Trump’s first full budget left few programs important to farmers untouched. The good thing for producers, rural communities and others who care about these programs is that this budget has no chance of surviving Congress.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 1, 2024: WFP Laureate Cary Fowler at Borlaug Dialogue

2024 World Food Prize laureates Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin were honored for their life work protecting crop biodiversity at the Borlaug International Dialogue. We asked Fowler about the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Then, Jim Snee, CEO of Hormel, and his wife Tammy discuss Hormel’s Hometown Food Security Project, and Manuel Otero, IICA director general, spoke on farmers’ challenges to adopt new technology.

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