“I’ve farmed for 37 years and worked with the government and everything—and what I’m hearing out here is radically different than what has taken place in the first 36 years of my career. And I just got up and told them so—I said, ‘this is not the USDA that people in the Midwest are familiar with.’”
Tim Burrack, Chairman of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, said that, “expressing concern about the USDA’s shift in emphasis toward locally grown and organic foods.”
The quotes come from an article in Brownfield Agricultural News.
I heard about that article from grist.org.
Fear of change is a terrifying thing.
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