2013 Year In Review Part 2

We continue our look back at the top news stories of the year on the Ag Network.

Food Checkout Week, a project of the American Farm Bureau's Women's Leadership Committee got underway. Terry Gilbert is chair of the Women's Leadership Committee and a cattle farmer from Kentucky said that farmers and ranchers not only grow our food, but they also want to make sure consumers know how to save money while putting that food on the table.

GILBERT: We want people to start understanding that they can buy healthy, nutritious food and keep it on a budget and that feeding your family nutritiously is not as hard as they might think it is.

We spent a few minutes talking with ag humorist Damien Mason about how he weaves humor into a serious business like agriculture.

MASON: The heart of agriculture - the pulse is obviously the people. And these people that are here today put the food on America'a plates. Most of them are completely misunderstood. Their industry is completely misunderstood so I take this thing where I get up there for 60 minutes and talk, I'm going to make them laugh. I'm going to put smiles on their faces but I'm also going to be very positive about the business of agriculture.

And of course one issue we heard a lot about was the farm bill and still are. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack reiterated many, many times for the need to get the 5-year bill done. And it will have to wait until next year.

That's today's Line On Agriculture. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.