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Update for Monday:
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Upwards of 2000 livestock industry participants show up at USDA-DOJ workshop in Colorado to voice opinions for and against a proposed federal rule that aims to improve competition in an increasingly consolidated and vertically integrated marketplace.

Update for Tuesday: Obama administration takes credit for "rapid rebound" in farm economy.

Update for Wednesday:
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USGC and RFA to lay the groundwork for more U.S. DDGS exports at global trade conference next month in Chicago.

Update for Thursday: Livestock interests gear up for big turnout at USDA-DOJ competition workshop in Colorado.

Update for Friday: NCBA and NPPC say market competition is alive and well on eve of USDA-DOJ livestock workshop in Colorado.


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What does "Sustainable Agriculture" mean to consumers and why should farmers care? Larry Kaagan, president of Kaagan Research Associates, has been surveying public attitudes toward sustainability and joins us this week on Open Mic to share his findings. According to Kaagan, consumers increasingly identify with sustainable food production and are forming most of their opinions about it based on messaging from the Michael Pollan's of the world. Kaagan says activist voices are doing a better, faster, more persuasive and creative job of defining sustainability than agriculture is.


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