11-8 FB EPA vs. Ag

Activist Anti-Farming Campaign is Uprooting Economic Recovery. During a summer campaign tour through rural America, President Obama proclaimed that America's economic "comeback," is "going to start on the ranch lands and farms “There is merit to his statement according to recent data:

•              Job creation in rural areas grew faster over the last two years.

•              Farm-sector income rose 27 percent last year and is projected to jump another 20 percent this year.

•              Agricultural exports increased by more than 10 percent from 2009 to 2010.

•              Unemployment is falling in many agriculture-intensive states.

 But these seeds of economic rebound are being uprooted by activist organizations that continually seek to disrupt and ban many elements of modern day farming and crop production. Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger points out that the EPA is one of these organizations: “We all know that the head of the EPA is anti-agriculture.”