Milk producers want the government to stop soy milk and other items such as yogurt from being labeled with names borrowed from dairy products. “The FDA has allowed the meaning of milk to be watered down to the point where many products that use the term have never seen the inside of a barn,” said Jerry Kozak, president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation. This is the second attempt by the group to get the labeling changed. The first occurred in 2000 during the last year of the Clinton administration. (Des Moines Register) Read more.
For nearly 57 years Bobbie Fitzgerald has come to work in the Henry County, Tenn., Farm Service Agency. But that all ends today as Fitzgerald leaves her position as county executive director and heads into retirement. “There comes a point when you need to retire and I reached that,” she said. While in retirement, Fitzgerald will keep her ties to the ag world by working in her garden. (Paris Post-Intelligencer). 
Northeast Missouri was buzzing with excitement this week, when President Obama toured the area as part of his White House to Main Street Tour. During his travels, Obama made an unannounced stop at Peggy Sue’s Café in Monroe City, Mo., where he treated the diners to lunch and discussed biofuels, healthcare, education and agriculture alongside Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. It was then on to Macon, Mo., where Obama and Vilsack toured the state’s first ethanol plant, Poet Biorefining. The President praised the company on its success and remarked on the future of biofuels and economic recovery. After leaving Macon, Obama and Vilsack visited the farm of Lowell Schachtsiek in Palmyra, Mo., where the Schachtsiek family discussed health insurance and the future of American agriculture. Stay Connected
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