The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.