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July 2009 |
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Listen to comments from ASA President
Johnny Dodson as he comments on ASA's reaction to House passage of the
climate change bill and what ASA liked and disliked about the legislation.
[07/01/09] Audio file length: 2:39 2.43 MB |
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April-June 2009 |
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Listen to comments from ASA Vice President
Joe Steiner as he explains the objective of ASA's new Innovation
Initiative think tank. [06/24/09] Audio file length: 2:28 2.26 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Ron Moore, who is the vice-chair of the standards committee that is
spearheading the development of a national standard for sustainable
agriculture. Moore talks about some of the key decisions the committee made
at its recent meeting. [06/10/09] Audio file length: 2:36 2.39 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Dennis Jaeger as he talks about his recent trip to Colombia and Panama
to learn more about the pending free trade agreements with those countries.
[06/02/09] Audio file length: 1:42 1.56 MB |
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Listen to comments from Diane Bellis,
the Director of Federal Research Programs for AgSource, Inc., who is working
to advance aquaculture and other research of interest to the soybean
industry. [05/21/09] Audio file length: 2:37 2.39 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA
President Johnny Dodson as he reacts to and talks about the flaws in
the EPA's proposed rule for the expanded Renewable Fuel Standard. [05/12/09]
Audio file length: 2:00 1.84 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA First Vice
President Rob Joslin as he talks about the ASA-led Commodity
Roundtable held last week in Washington, D.C. [05/06/09] Audio file
length: 02:09 1.97 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Vice President
Ray Gaesser, who recently met with Senator Chuck Grassley to advance
ASA's biodiesel agenda and share concerns about a court ruling on the Clean
Water Act that could negatively impact soybean farmers. [04/29/09] Audio
file length: 2:11 1.99 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Vice President
Alan Kemper, a member of the USDA's Agricultural Policy Advisory
Committee for Trade, who talks about the importance of resolving the U.S.
trucking dispute with Mexico and bringing back the Cross Border Trucking
Pilot Program [04/15/09] Audio file length: 02:33 2.34 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Executive
Committee member Steve Wellman as he comments on the lack of
convergence between cash values and futures prices in the soybean market.
Wellman was nominated by ASA to serve on the CFTC's new Subcommittee on
Convergence in Agricultural Commodity Markets. [04/01/09] Audio file
length: 02:05 1.91 MB |
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January - March 2009
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Ron Moore, who participated in ASA's recent Biotech Outreach mission to
Germany and Italy. [03/25/09] Audio file length: 02:02 1.86 MB |
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Listen to comments from Ron Kindred,
Chairman of the American Soybean Association's transportation committee, as
he provides an update on some of the issues that ASA is working on in the
rail and waterways transportation systems. [03/18/09] Audio file length:
02:09 1.97 MB |
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Listen to comments from Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack when he addressed ASA's Board of Directors on March 10,
2009. Also, Vilsack addresses questions from ASA Board members. [03/12/09] Audio file length:
32:42
29.9 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA member Jim
Andrew, who chairs a biofuels working group that is part of the EPA's
Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee. Andrew
explains why ASA is against the inclusion of the indirect land use formula
in the new Renewable Fuel Standard. [03/12/09] Audio file length: 03:09
2.88 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President
Johnny Dodson as he talks about resolutions discussed as ASA's recent
Voting Delegates Session. [03/04/09] Audio file length: 01:36 1.47 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President
Johnny Dodson as he talks about his meeting with Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack, which was an opportunity to brief the new secretary on
issues of top importance to all U.S. soybean farmers. [02/19/09] Audio
file length: 02:06 1.92 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Joe Layton, who chaired the recent meeting of ASA's Biotechnology
Working Group. Layton discusses ASA's role in past and future approvals of
biotechnology-improved soybeans. [02/04/09] Audio file length: 03:34 3.26
MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President
Johnny Dodson about the legislative priorities discussed at ASA's annual
Executive Committee Planning Session. [01/28/09] Audio file length: 02:16
2.08 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA First Vice
President Rob Joslin as he talks about ASA's reaction to the
Secretary of Agriculture's recommendation to the Office of Inspector General
that an audit and investigation of the national soybean checkoff be
conducted. [01/14/09] Audio file length: 01:49 1.66 MB |
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October-December 2008 |
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Listen to comments from ASA President
Johnny Dodson as he reacts to the announcement that the U.S. Department
of Agriculture will use 2007 and 2008 Season Average Prices to determine the
revenue guarantee for the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program.
[12/23/08] Audio file length: 01:50 1.68 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA
President John Hoffman as he comments on ASA's petition to the
Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Agriculture calling for an
investigation of the United Soybean Board to ensure that soybean checkoff
dollars are being managed and invested as prescribed by law. [12/10/08]
Audio file length: 02:43 2.49 MB |
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Listen to comments from John Askew,
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 office, as
he talks about the biodiesel manual recently released by the office and the
EPA's continuous support of agriculture. [12/02/08] Audio file length:
02:17 2.10 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Ron Moore as he talks about his work with the Standards Committee
responsible for developing a national standard for sustainable agriculture.
As the new Vice-Chair of the committee, Moore explains what he will
introduce to the standard and how he's protecting the interests of soybean
producers. [11/19/08] Audio file length: 02:18 2.11 MB |
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Listen to comments from Paul Rohde, the
Waterways Council's Vice President of the Midwest area, as he talks about
the importance of river transportation to agriculture and the improvements
that need to be made to the river system. [11/05/08] Audio file length:
03:23 3.10 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Chairman Rick
Ostlie as he discusses ASA's recent appeal to Secretary of Agriculture
Ed Schafer to help fund the soybean pest monitoring system, ipmPIPE, and the
impact it would have on soybean producers if the program was not in place.
[10/22/08] Audio file length: 02:37 2.39 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President John
Hoffman as he talks about ASA's reaction to the extension of the
biodiesel tax incentive and why the legislation is important to U.S. soybean
producers. [10/08/08] Audio file length: 01:57 1.79 MB |
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July -
September 2008 |
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Listen to comments from Jim
Hershey, Executive Director of ASA's World Initiative for Soy in Human
Health program, as he talks about how funding that ASA recently received as
part of the USDA's Emerging Markets Program will help bring the benefits of
U.S. soy to new markets. [09/24/08] Audio file length: 02:14 2.04 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board
member Barb Overlie as she discusses her recent visit to Africa as
part of the "Women in Soy" group, who made the 12-day trip to build
relationships with African women who are agricultural leaders in their
countries. [09/17/08] Audio file length: 02:24 2.20 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Bob Henry, who recently presented comments to a USDA panel on the
implementation of the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels, where he
emphasized the need for greater U.S. energy independence as part of ASA's
priorities for the program. [09/11/08] Audio file length: 02:05 1.92 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President John
Hoffman as he talks about the letters ASA wrote to presidential
candidates Senator McCain and Senator Obama to present the top soybean
priorities and concerns. [08/29/08] Audio file length: 02:52 2.62 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Rob Joslin as he talks about what visitors to this year's Farm Progress
Show in Boone, Iowa will experience at the ASA and Iowa Soybean
Association's combined booth and ASA's members-only VIP tent. [08/20/08]
Audio file length: 02:27 2.24 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA First Vice
President Johnny Dodson as he responds to the Environmental
Protection Agency's denial of the Renewable Fuel Standard waiver request.
[08/14/08] Audio file length: 02:35 2.37 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member
Ron Moore as he talks about the establishment of a final standard for
sustainable agriculture. Moore was recently named to the Standards Committee
of the Leonardo Academy, who will be working on the document before it is
submitted to the American National Standards Institute for approval.
[08/06/08] Audio file length: 02:44 2.50 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President John
Hoffman as he talks about the break down of World Trade Organization
negotiations and ASA's push for more free market access for U.S. soybean
farmers. [07/31/08] Audio file length: 02:52 2.63 MB |
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Listen to comments from
Calvin Treat of Monsanto as he spoke to ASA Board members at the Soy
Legislative Forum in Washington, D.C. on July 15. Treat presented on the
challenges facing agriculture and future products in the Monsanto pipeline.
[07/24/08] Audio file length: 03:45 3.43 MB |
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Listen to comments from the Executive Director
of ASA's World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program, Jim Hershey,
as he talks about how the World Soy Foundation has been active in feeding
undernourished people around the world, including by the use of SoyCows and
the Acre Challenge. [07/02/08] Audio file length: 03:57 3.61 MB |
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April
- June 2008 |
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Listen to comments from United Soybean Board
Chairman Ike
Boudreaux
about the
challenges facing U.S. soybean producers and how USB is investing checkoff
funds to address those challenges. [06/26/08]
Audio file length: 02:52 2.69 MB
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Listen to comments from ASA Chief Executive
Officer Steve Censky as he comments on the International Oilseed
Producers Dialogue Conference in Germany at which he discussed food and fuel
and sustainability issues. [06/25/08] Audio file length: 03:27 3.15 MB
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Listen to comments from ASA
Chairman Rick Ostlie as he talks about the importance of China as a
soybean trading partner and discusses a recent visit from a Chinese trade
delegation. [06/18/08] Audio file length: 03:03 2.79 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board member, and
head of ASA's Market Performance Working Group, Steve Wellman as he
talks about the new policy initiatives announced by the CFTC regarding
concerns about agricultural futures markets. [06/11/08] Audio file
length: 02:41 2.45 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA Board
member Ray Gaesser as he talks about current issues in soybean rail
transportation after he had the opportunity to ride the Burlington Northern
Santa Fe Railway on Customer Appreciation Day. [06/04/08] Audio file
length: 01:59 1.82 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President John
Hoffman as he talks about passage of the "Food, Conservation, and Energy
Act of 2008." [05/29/08] Audio file length: 01:49 1.66 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President John
Hoffman as he reacts to the Farm Bill that was passed by Congress and
the bill's inclusion of some of ASA's top priorities. [05/21/08] Audio
file length: 01:48 1.65 MB |
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Listen to comments from ASA President John
Hoffman
about Congressional approval of the "Food,
Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008." [05/13/08] Audio file length: 01:09 1.6 MB |
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Listen
to comments from
ASA First Vice President Johnny Dodson as he talks about the many
benefits of soy biodiesel. [04/24/08] Audio file length: 02:15 2006 KB |
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Listen to
concerns by ASA Board member Scott Fritz that futures markets are becoming
less effective in allowing farmers to manage risk.
[04/03/08]
Audio file length: 02:08 2001 KB
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January
2008 |
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Listen to ASA Biodiesel Radio
Commercial (01/09/08) |
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Listen to ASA Exports
Radio Commercial (01/09/08) |
