We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

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

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.