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'Don't Cap Our Future' Comes to a Head
03-10-2010
JEFFERSON CITY, MO - - Cap-and-trade legislation, an attempt to reduce greenhouse gases and slow supposed man-made global warming, is stalled in the U.S. Senate at the moment, but is still a hot issue with America’s farmers and ranchers. “Cap-and-trade is essentially a tax on carbon and would prove devastating to agriculture,” said Missouri Farm Bureau President Charles Kruse, a member of the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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Resolution Best Hope of Stopping EPA
03-03-2010
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - - In a letter to Missouri members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Missouri Farm Bureau President Charles Kruse asked they support the Resolution of Disapproval introduced by Missouri’s 4th District Representative Ike Skelton. Saying the resolution represents the best hope of stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Federal Clean Air Act, Kruse asked the delegation to co-sponsor the resolution. The full letter follows.
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Latest "Cut to the Chase" Article
Don't CAP Our Future!
03-12-2010
by Garrett Hawkins
Like most farmers, my father rarely leaves the house without his cap—that is unless he is on his way to church or a funeral. In some respects the farm cap, whether emblazoned with the Farm Bureau logo or that of a local livestock market, seed company, or implement dealer, is a symbol of the American farmer. The farm cap has also come to symbolize a grassroots movement to defeat one of the worst pieces of legislation of our time, cap-and-trade.
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