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  • From: "Rick Williams" <mrfarm AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Farm Bureau
  • Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:43:22 -0500


Jill Taylor Bussiere wrote:
> There are plenty of complaints about the American Farm Bureau
> Federation - I
> send a site you can check out, as to what some of these complaints are.
> There is pretty good evidence for the claims.

Perhaps characterizing it as plenty might be a bit of an overstatement:)

It is interesting that you would select an organization that is a front for
the Defenders of Wildlife environmental group. Not exactly your average
pro-farmer type group:)

While some of their positions are the same as the FB, they have many
positions that if you honestly examine them, will find that they are nearly
impossible to garner support for. Wasn't this the group that CBS based some
of their false and misleading information on when they did the attack on the
FB and destroyed their credibility with many farmers across the U.S.?

Again, the Farm Bureau is a big tent organization of all farmers with many
different views to reconcile. Quite different from groups that disparage the
majority of farmers and wonder why they don't get much support from farmers.

It is also interesting that when you do a search on the net for this group,
you get ... no surprise ... a supporting quote of this organization by none
other than ... Jill Taylor Bussiere:)

Actually, there really is not a lot of anti-Farm Bureau material on the
internet. In fact, it seems that this one group is the leading organization
that attacks the majority of farmers in the U.S. under the guise of somehow
promoting their version of what the family farm is all about.

Sincerely,

Rick Williams
Misty Ridge Farm
Dairy heifers and dairy beef graziers
Viroqua, WI

www.mistyridgefarm.com





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