Home Home About Us Contact Us Subscribe Login to Download or View Subscriber Only Content Sample Issue News Archive



Print

Read our weekly blog (opens new window)

(You may right click, then "save target as", the day of the week to download the "mp3" audio file playable on computers or Ipod like devices. Or, just click twice to activate and play directly from this web page.)

Update for Monday:
Sponsored by Monsanto
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:
Link to Wide Open Thinking
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.


Read about John
Agricultural Audio Updates from John Block:

Mexican Trade War”
Germany”


The following links are provided as a useful resource:
 
 
Org Site
25x25 http://www.25x25.org
4-H http://www.4-h.org/
AFA http://www.agfuture.org/
Ag Professional http://www.agprofessional.com/
Agricultural Retailers Association http://www.aradc.org/
Agricultural Marketing Resource Center http://www.agmrc.org/
American Coalition for Ethanol http://www.ethanol.org/
American Corn Growers Association http://www.acga.org/
American Farm Bureau Federation http://www.fb.org/
American Farmland Trust http://www.farmland.org/
American Farrier's Assocation http://www.americanfarriers.org/
American Feed Industry Association http://www.afia.org/
American Sheep Industry http://www.sheepusa.org/
American Society of Agricultural Appraisers http://www.amagappraisers.com/
American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers http://www.asfmra.org/
American Soybean Association http://www.soygrowers.com/
Animal Agriculture Alliance http://www.animalagalliance.org/
Arkansas Rice Farmers  http://arkansasricefarmers.org/
Cattlemen's Beef Board http://www.beefboard.com/
Center for Food Integrity http://www.foodintegrity.org/
Chicago Mercantile Exchange http://www.cmegroup.com/
Corn Refiners Association http://www.sweetsurprise.com/
Cotton Council http://www.cotton.org/
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology http://www.cast-science.org/
CropLife America http://www.croplifeamerica.org/
CropLife International http://www.croplife.org/
Ethanol Promotion and Information Council http://www.drivingethanol.org/
Farm Foundation http://www.farmfoundation.org/
Food and Fuel America http://www.foodandfuelamerica.com/
Future Farmers of America http://www.ffa.org/
Grain Growers of Canada http://www.ggc-pgc.ca/
Growth Energy http://www.growthenergy.org/
Illinois Farm Bureau http://www.farmweeknow.com/
Intermountain Roundwood Association http://www.intermountainroundwood.org/
Iowa Soybean Association http://www.iasoybeans.com/
Kansas City Board of Trade http://www.kcbot.com/
Livestock Marketing Association http://www.lmaweb.com/
Mid American Ag and Hort Services, Inc. http://www.midamservices.org/
Midwest Dairy Association http://www.midwestdairy.com/
NASDAQ http://www.nasdaq.com/
National Agri-Marketing Association http://www.nama.org/
National Alliance on Independent Crop Consultants http://www.naicc.org/
National Association of Wheat Growers http://www.wheatworld.org/
National Biodiesel Board http://www.biodiesel.org/
National Cattlemen Beef Association http://www.beefusa.org/
National Corn Growers Association http://www.ncga.com/
National Dairy Council http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/
National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition http://www.e85fuel.com/
National Farm-City Council http://www.farmcity.org/
National Farmers Organization http://www.nfo.org/
National Farmers Union http://www.nfu.org/
National Grain & Feed Association http://www.ngfa.org/
National Ground Water Association http://www.ngwa.org/
National Pork Producers Council http://www.nppc.org/
National Sorghum Producers http://www.sorghumgrowers.com/
National Sunflower Association http://www.sunflowernsa.com/
National Weather Service http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
New Uses Council http://www.newuses.org/
New York Stock Exchange http://www.nyse.com/
Pork Board http://pork.org/
Property Rights Research http://propertyrightsresearch.blogspot.com/
R-Calf http://www.r-calfusa.com/
Renewable Fuels Association http://www.ethanolrfa.org/
Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification http://safefeedsafefood.org/
U.S. Grains Council http://www.grains.org/
U.S. Meat Export Federation http://www.usmef.org/
United Soybean Board http://www.unitedsoybean.org/
USA Rice http://www.usarice.com/
Wild Rose Agricultural Producers http://www.wrap.ab.ca/
Bookmark and Share

Bookmark and Share

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.


(You may right click here, then select "save target as" to download this ".mp3" file which is playable on either your computer or ipod like devices. Or, just click the green arrow twice to activate and play directly from this web page..)
Crop Insurance America


Previous Open Mic Interviews