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As we recognize National Pollinator Week (June 16-22), it is appropriate that we reflect on the importance of bees to our economy, as well as the challenges that beekeepers and farmers face in helping to ensure our nation's agricultural sustainability

The legislative days are fleeting for immigration reform. Once Congress reaches its annual August recess, the deadline will arrive as the Obama Administration undoubtedly takes steps to address the issue.

Socrates said “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Change can be painful and takes a good amount of time and energy. Never is that more true than in government.

Our country’s population is projected to increase by at least 75 million in the next 50 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The troubling aspect is that while all of this dramatic growth is taking place, the United States is losing farm, ranch and forest land at an alarming rate, with three

Honey bees are already under stress from a wide range of potential factors including disease, pests, pesticides and lack of forage.

I’ve spent the last 17 years of my life farming in North Dakota and I’ve loved every minute of it. But it can be a very risky business. There are many steps that farmers can take to manage risk, like growing a wide variety of crops, rotating crops and growing cover crops to prevent erosion.

As a proud sponsor of National Ag Day on March 25, the AVMA salutes our nation’s farmers and ranchers for the invaluable service they provide so that Americans have access to the highest quality, abundant and most affordable food products available.

As Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the NIDIS, I cosponsored the Drought Information Act and worked to pass the bill out of committee last year.

Congress rejected the idea of eliminating funding for the time-tested Food for Peace program,