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If we want broad support for effective and efficient conservation programs on working agricultural lands, we need fewer programs.

Without discussion of principles, the tax debate becomes a process of keeping track of “shiftors and shiftees.”

The release last month of the “My Plate” by First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack comes not a moment too soon. Obesity has reached an epidemic proportion in the United States.

All of these prestigious and powerful thought leaders are now shining a bright light on our nation’s rural development policy at a critical moment in time.

there are winners and losers in the short run, but in the long run everybody wins from open trade. Flinchbaugh and Edelman debate farm policy and trade policy

Leading food aid and farm policy spokesperson, Marshall Matz, takes Michael Pollan to task for what his overly simplified cheap food policy suggestions would mean for the world's hungry in an Agri-Pulse commentary.

A new approach to Food and Ag Policy.

The 21st Century brings challenges to farmer from both state and federal agencies.