Bootheel farmers, ag groups offer input to the nation's 2008 farm bill
Sunday, August 7, 2005
PORTAGEVILLE - After expressing concerns ranging from the drought Missouri is suffering to encouraging young Missourians to farm, area farmers and representatives of commodity groups were quite pleased with the answers they received from Eighth District Rep. Jo Ann Emerson and Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, at a round table discussion Friday at the Delta Center.