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Politicians don’t usually get noticed for what they write in the Farm Bureau’s semimonthly newsletter, but some of their responses to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s candidate survey might be news to you. Sen. John McCain said he would exempt agriculture from his carbon cap-and-trade program. Sen. Barack Obama said he supported a [...]

Opponents of ethanol are seeking to exploit an opportunity to relax the federal renewable fuels standard, but drew a strong reaction from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley on Tuesday. A request for a waiver from the renewable fuels standard (RFS) is gaining support, just as Midwest farmers struggle to pick up the pieces following months [...]

Iowa’s flood disaster is causing some to call for the release of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for haying and grazing.

 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation president Craig Lang addressed the crowd on Saturday at the IFBF's annual meeting in Des Moines.
 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's district directors, Carlton Kjos, Charles Norris, Phil Sundblad, Doug Gronau, Richard Merrill, Joe Heinrich, Daniel Johnson, Calvin Rozenboom and Jim McKnight.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, shakes hands at the [...]

More than 1,000 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation members are expected to gather today in Des Moines for the organization's annual meeting.
The two-day event, to be held at the Polk County Convention Complex, will feature educational seminars presented by agricultural experts and will focus on the theme "Energizing Iowa."
"This year's annual meeting is focused [...]

Though the U.S. Senate's agriculture committee won't take up the 2007 Farm Bill until September, committee Chairman Tom Harkin has been quite vocal that the Senate's version will be different from the bill passed last Friday by the House of Representatives.

The Iowa Democrat, who also chaired the Senate ag committee in 2002 when the existing farm [...]