Grain News St. Paul, MN— Robert Deraas , a veteran food and agribusiness leader, has been named president of CHS Sunflower , a value-added business of CHS Inc. , the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative and an energy, grains and foods company.
June 14, 2013 - Grainnet.com
Senators who write farm bill fine print reap agribusiness campaign cash The top Senate recipients of agribusiness campaign cash between 2008 and 2012 largely hail from farm states, with senators from South Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan and Kansas topping the list.
June 10, 2013 - Philly.com
Barack Obama in Washington Post Speaking at a Chicago news conference, Obama said his administration's policies at the Agriculture and Interior departments would be "designed to serve not big agribusiness or Washington influence-peddlers but family farmers and the American...
John Dingell in Seattle Post Intelligencer Dingell said: "It's nothing more than a favor to big agribusiness at the expense of the public health and communities living near these facilities."