Items Tagged with 'Agriculture'

In this opinion piece, Anja Raudabaugh, CEO of Western United Dairies, lays out how she says dairy producers in California were able to soundly defeat a proposed ban on concentrated animal feeding operations in Sonoma County.

In this joint opinion piece, Manuel Otero, director general of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, and Fernando Mattos, minister of livestock, agriculture, and fisheries for Uruguay and president of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture, say an historic declaration facilitated by the G-20’s Agriculture Working Group makes the case for taking concrete steps to address the effects of climate change. 

In this opinion piece, Rep. David Valadao highlights the devastating impact natural disasters have had on the ag industry over the last year and the importance of ensuring producers have timely access to relief.

In this opinion piece, Missouri farmer Blake Hurst argues that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement would actually make Americans' health worse and their food more expensive. 

In this opinion piece, J. Dudley Butler, who was an administrator for the former Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, argues that the viability of rural America and its farms and ranches is at stake in the election.

In this opinion piece, Alex Mathews, president and CEO of the Animal Health Institute, argues that progress is being made in preventing antibiotic resistance in the animal health sector.

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz, senior counsel at OFW Law, discusses the negative global impact he says the Hamas attack has had on food security in agriculture. 

In this opinion piece, Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., argues that the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress are putting climate ideology ahead of providing farmers the assistance they need. 

In this opinion piece, Jon Doggett, former CEO of the National Corn Growers Association, responds to a previous op-ed by Kip Tom and expresses concern about the impact of Donald Trump's policy positions on agriculture. 

In this opinion piece, Amy DeLisio, CEO of the Dairy Council of California, discusses the significance of educating producers and consumers about Food is Medicine strategies and argues that they are critical to a healthy aging population.