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

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

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

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.