Not the Farm Bill & Washington Wolf Kill

Not the Farm Bill & Washington Wolf Kill. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

So what do you call legislation that helps protect farmers and ranchers do what they do best? How about, a farm bill? Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack thinks that might not be the best answer.

VILSACK: Can we talk about the Food, Farm & Jobs bill instead of just the farm bill? Folks in the cities and suburbs think, “It doesn’t affect my life, I don’t care about that.” And maybe their legislators and representatives think the same thing. But the reality is that’s a piece of legislation that touches the lives of every single American and every single American has a stake in that bill. So I’d like to talk about it as a food, farm and jobs bill because that’s what it does.

A Twisp, Washington rancher and his wife have plead guilty to federal charges of killing and conspiring to export the pelt of a protected species. The ranchers father has already plead guilty to charges involving the killing of at least two members of the first known wolf pack in Washington State in 70 years. They face fines of up to $35-thousand dollars and possible jail time. Some fellow ranchers in the region have defended the Whites' right to protect the herd. Prosecutors said the Whites never demonstrated  any threat to their livestock.

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.