Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

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.

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

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

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

Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.