A resolution at the Iowa Farm Bureau policy meeting on Thursday stated farm programs should be eliminated as a way to show fiscal responsibility while using the savings to expand crop insurance coverage. It came within one vote of getting in the group's policy book. See DTN Ag News. BTerminating Farm Programs...

Feverish opposition doomed USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System, but the backup plan of 50 state systems isn't likely to provide the rapid traceability needed to head off the worst consequences of contagious animal diseases. See DTN Ag News. BLetter From the Editor...

Fall is reaping/sowing time. Work often requires distractions in numerous pastimes. Although rain abounds, grains rally as projections hacked. See DTN Ag News. 1^Newsom on the Market...

Some of the agriculture advocacy groups created by various producer organizations and allied industries have opted not to discuss the 550-million egg recall and the large farm organization at the center of the federal health probe and possible criminal investigation. See DTN Ag News. BAgvocates Lay Low on DeCoster...