In the Corn and Soybean Digest, organizer Kent Thiesse notes
Hot-Topic Issues at Farmfest's senatorial and congressional candidate forums next Tuesday:
Following are the broad-issue topics that the candidate’s forums will focus on:
- The new farm bill: Good ideas, implementation and needed revisions.
- Renewable energy development and policies (RFS, import tariffs, etc.)
- How to best address rapidly rising fuel and food costs that are affecting everybody
- WTO Negotiations, NAFTA, CAFTA, and other trade agreements
- Addressing issues facing the U.S. livestock industry. (Low profits, COOL, etc.)
- The increasing federal budget deficit vs. the need for more spending on federal programs
- Rural development issues: How to strengthen rural communities
- Future development of biotechnology in the agriculture industry
- The impact of federal environmental regulations on production agriculture
- Revisions needed in current rural and agriculture policy
Here's the congressional candidate forum roster:
* Congressman Collin Peterson (D), (Seventh)
* Glen Menze (R), (Seventh)
* Congressman Tim Walz (D), (First)
* Brian Davis (R), (First)
* Dick Day (R), (First)
* Elwyn Tinklenberg (D), (Sixth)
* Steve Sarvi (D), (Second)Ag Leader Panel :
* Lynn Ketelsen, Linder Farm Network, Moderator
* Kevin Paap, President, MN Farm Bureau
* Doug Peterson, President, MN Farmer's Union
* Kristin Weeks Duncanson, Vice President, MN Agri-Growth Council
* Roger Moore, President, MN Corn Grower's Assn.
* Lance Peterson, Past-President, MN Soybean Grower's Assn
The Political Muse at LITLOC asks Bachmann "Office" Comes To Farmfest, But What About Bachmann?.
Good question.
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