In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.
We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.
You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.
Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
A farm bill in Washington State is a jobs bill.