Vilsack on State of the Union & Booting the Bird

Vilsack on State of the Union & Booting the Bird. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack seemed pleased with the direction that President Obama’s State of the Union Address took and in particular his take on rural America.

VILSACK: Well Greg, I was very pleased with the President’s speech because of the emphasis that he placed on rural American and an acknowledgement of some of the key components of future success and how we’re going to win the future with a reliance on the strengths of rural America. I think that farmers and ranchers in this country have kind of given the country and the President sort of a roadmap to how we win this future. You know the President was right to talk about out innovating, out educating and out building the rest of the world and agriculture’s doing that.

Foghorn Leghorn would surely have something to say about Ada County Idaho’s proposed ordinance to ban roosters from densely populated parts of the county, even for children doing 4-H and FFA projects. Officials say they are still getting complaints about roosters, who aren't well mannered when it comes to observing a noise ordinance’s quite hours between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. so the county is considering changing the law to restrict them to more sparsely populated areas of the county and where homes are on larger pieces of land.

FOGHORN LEGHORN: That’s going to cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show.

Now here’s today’s Washington Grange report.

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That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.