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January 2012 |
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Listen to comments from ASA President Steve
Wellman, who talks about ASA’s support for a U.S. free trade agreement
with the European Union. ASA wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador
Ron Kirk this week on its priorities for such an agreement.
[01/25/12] Audio file length: 02:39 2.42 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Ron Kindred, who talks about the impact of reduced dredging activities
on the Mississippi River and why an efficient transportation system is
important to U.S. soybean farmers. [01/12/12] Audio file length: 02:49
2.57 MB |
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October-December 2011 |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Ron Kindred, who reports on his recent meeting about soybean farmer
priorities with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Environmental
Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson. [12/22/11] Audio file
length: 02:17 2.09 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President Steve
Wellman, who talks about what he's been working on on behalf of U.S.
soybean farmers and his goals for ASA in 2012. [12/13/11] Audio file
length: 02:01 1.84 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA First Vice
President Steve Wellman, who talks about his biotech outreach mission
to the European Union (EU), where he met with government and ag industry
officials on the EU's biotech trait approval process. [11/30/11] Audio
file length: 02:21 2.15 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Vice President
Bob Worth, who talks about the importance of the Panama Canal to U.S.
soybean farmers and the impact of the canal's expansion. [11/21/11] Audio
file length: 02:56 2.67 MB |
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Listen to comments from National Biodiesel
Board CEO Joe Jobe, who talks about record biodiesel production and
the policy priorities the biodiesel industry and ASA are working on.
[11/07/11] Audio file length: 03:40 3.35 MB |
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Listen to comments from Waterways Council
President and CEO Mike Toohey, who talks about challenges and
priorities for waterways transportation including modernization of the
inland waterways system and dredging on the Mississippi River. [10/25/11]
Audio file length: 03:11 2.91 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President Alan
Kemper as ASA celebrates the passage of free trade agreements with South
Korea, Colombia, and Panama. [10/13/11] Audio file length: 02:59 2.72 MB |
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July-September 2011 |
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Listen to comments from ASA Chairman Rob
Joslin, who also chairs ASA’s Farm Bill Task Force, as he talks about
ASA’s 2012 Farm Bill Proposal. [09/29/11] Audio file length: 02:51 2.61
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Listen to comments from ASA First Vice
President Steve Wellman, who talks about his recent trip to Argentina
to represent U.S. soybean farmers at the 5th MERCOSUR Soybean Congress and a
meeting of the International Soybean Growers Alliance. [09/21/11] Audio
file length: 03:52 3.53 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Vice President
Ray Gaesser, who reminds farmers to keep safety in mind this fall as ASA
observes National Farm Safety & Health Week. [09/20/11] Audio file
length: 02:56 2.69 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Chairman Rob
Joslin as he reports on his participation in a roundtable discussion
with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on biobased products and their
benefits to soybean farmers and rural communities. [09/14/11] Audio file
length: 03:05 2.82 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President Alan
Kemper, a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Advisory
Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture, known as AC21, as
he reports on the committee’s first meeting. [09/07/11] Audio file
length: 02:22 2.15 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Bob Henry, who serves on ASA’s 2012 Farm Bill Working Group and
participated in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s recent field hearing in Wichita.
Henry talks about ASA’s efforts to make programs authorized in the 2012 Farm
Bill more efficient, effective, and defensible. [08/26/11] Audio file
length: 02:42 2.47 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President Alan
Kemper, who talks about the importance of GPS technology to farmers as
ASA urges the Federal Communications Commission not to permit LightSquared’s
proposed wireless network. [08/17/11] Audio file length: 02:49 2.57 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Vice President
Ray Gaesser, who
recently met with farmers impacted by the Missouri River flooding and
reports on their main concerns going forward. [08/12/11] Audio file
length: 02:23 2.17 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Chairman Rob
Joslin, who talks about ASA's call for a resolution to the debt ceiling
impasse. [07/27/11] Audio file length: 01:57 1.78 MB |
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Listen to comments from Global Harvest
Initiative Executive Director Bill Lesher, who talks about the
agriculture industry’s challenge to sustainably increase productivity to
feed a growing population. [07/20/11] Audio file length: 03:08 2.86 MB |
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April-June 2011 |
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Listen to comments from ASA First Vice
President Steve Wellman, who talks about the urgent need for
additional resources to dredge and repair inland waterways that have been
damaged by historic high water levels. [06/29/11] Audio file length:
02:52 2.62 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA First Vice
President Steve Wellman, who's a member of ASA’s Biotech Working
Group. Wellman recently traveled to the European Union to discuss the
approval process for seed traits developed through biotechnology. [06/23/11]
Audio file length: 03:06 2.83 MB |
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Listen to comments from
consultant Darren Fife, who works with farmers to make sure their
operations are compliant with the Environmental Protection Agency's Spill
Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) program. Fife talks about what
farmers need to know about the SPCC program as the deadline for plans
approaches. [06/09/11] Audio file length: 03:52 3.54 MB |
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Listen to comments from
ASA Board member Richard Wilkins,
who participated in a
press conference celebrating National Trade Month and promoting the benefits
of pending free trade agreements. [05/27/11] Audio file length: 03:05
2.82 MB |
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Listen to comments from
ASA President Alan Kemper, who talks about ASA’s ongoing efforts to
get the implementing legislation for three pending free trade agreements
submitted to Congress as soon as possible. [05/18/11] Audio file length:
02:01 1.84 MB |
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Listen to comments from
ASA Chairman Rob Joslin, who talks about the importance of the Panama
Canal in the export of U.S. soybeans after he participated in an event
highlighting the canal’s expansion. [05/10/11] Audio file length: 03:29
3.19 MB |
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Listen to comments from
ASA First Vice President Steve Wellman, who recently met with USDA
officials to discuss ASA's concerns with the European Union's Renewable
Energy Directive. [05/04/11] Audio file length: 04:08 3.78 MB |
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Listen to comments from
ASA Vice President Ray Gaesser, who talks about biotechnology
coexistence and the European Union’s zero-tolerance policy for biotech
traits. Gaesser recently participated in a symposium on the topics.
[04/28/11] Audio file length: 03:00 2.74 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Chairman Rob
Joslin, who talks about how U.S. soybean farmers celebrate Earth Day
everyday by sustainably producing food, feed and fuel. [04/20/11] Audio
file length: 02:30 2.28 MB |
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Listen to comments from Danny Murphy,
Chairman of ASA's Trade Policy and International Affairs Committee, who
talks about ASA’s international marketing role and activities. [04/13/11]
Audio file length: 3:54 3.57 MB |
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January-March 2011 |
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Listen to ASA President Alan Kemper
talk about meeting with foreign trade officials on ASA’s priorities for the
Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations. [03/29/11] Audio
file length: 03:04 2.80 MB |
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Listen to ASA First Vice President Steve
Wellman talk about ASA’s concerns with the European Union’s (EU)
Renewable Energy Directive and the impact it’s having on access for U.S.
agricultural products to EU markets. [03/16/11] Audio file length: 02:44
2.05 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Charles Cannatella, Co-Chair of the 2011 Commodity Classic, as he talks
about this year’s record-setting convention and trade show. [03/09/11]
Audio file length: 02:17 2.09 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Lawrence Sukalski, who talks about the importance of waterways
transportation to U.S. soybean farmers, and his participation in recent
Waterways Council meetings. [02/23/11] Audio file length: 02:37 2.38 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President Alan
Kemper, who talks about the issues addressed at the recent meeting of
ASA’s Soybean Biotechnology Working Group. [02/15/11] Audio file length:
2:02 1.85 MB |
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Listen to comments from Ron Moore, who
is Vice Chairman of ASA's Trade Policy and International Affairs Committee,
as he talks about the importance of the export market to the U.S. soybean
industry and national trade balance. [02/10/11] Audio file length: 02:30
2.28 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Executive
Committee member Danny Murphy, as he talks about the recent
commitment of a group of Chinese companies to purchase over $6 billion worth
of U.S. soybeans. [01/26/11] Audio file length: 02:47 2.54 MB |
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Listen to comments from
ASA Board member and Commodity Classic Co-Chair Charles Cannatella,
who talks about why growers should not miss the 2011 Commodity Classic,
March 3-5, in Tampa, Fla. [01/12/11] Audio file length: 02:17 2.09 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President Alan
Kemper, who talks about his goals for his term as president in 2011.
[01/06/11] Audio file length: 02:11 1.99 MB |
