Live from WPX 2012: Keeping food affordable

Bill Luckey, board member for the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), explains the new Keeping Food Affordable coalition, of which NPPC is a founding member.

The grassroots advocacy group is designed to keep farmers and consumers informed and give them a voice regarding policies and initiatives at the state and federal levels that impact the safety, availability and affordability of food.

1. Traders evening up positions ahead of the weekend Friday
2. New, larger portable platform scales
3. NOAA: Get ready for a busy hurricane season
4. Midwest gasoline prices: some relief in sight
5. About that farmland bubble…
6. Senate votes to cut insurance subsidies to rich farmers

1. Corn and soybean prices continue to retrace 2012 drought rally
2. Special health claim for this pork
3. Business seminars scheduled for World Pork Expo
4. Swine virus confirmed in Iowa, Indiana hog herds
5. Commentary: In praise of animal foods
6. Pot Pigs: Marijuana and vodka fed to hogs

1. Commentary: GMOs: How do I hate thee?
2. Commentary: In praise of animal foods
3. Meat and climate change: How significant is the impact?
4. Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
5. Meat industry associations quick to attack the new MCOOL rule
6. Survey reveals most Americans in favor of COOL