That's what happens when you meet with a group of agriculture interests and you're chairwoman of the Colorado House committee overseeing that industry. But she regains her focus when the subject arises about the need for more emergency funding for agricultural producers hurt by this winter's storms. But unlike many of them, she also lives the agricultural life. As important as her visit is to her listeners, she can't help but have other things on her mind, including another appointment she...

And no, the cows sold in the auction won't be slaughtered: They'll be used as seed stock for genetic herds, so it's actually their descendants we'll be eating. Williams joined the Army after leaving school and ended up giving vaccinations, which sparked an interest in medicine; he got an associate's degree while he was in the service, and once he was out, he finished college and went to the UT-Houston Medical School. Initial reports indicated that the driver, a 53-year-old woman, careened...

The industry-led group has been active in promoting the benefits of the poultry industry as it faces an environmental lawsuit from Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson concerning the application of poultry litter to fields in the Illinois River watershed. The industry-led group has been active in promoting the benefits of the poultry industry as it faces an environmental lawsuit from Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson concerning the application of poultry litter to fields in the...

Cattle were driven in one door, weighed, paraded across the arena floor and herded out another door, with buyers bidding as they passed. The photographer was standing directly in front of railroad tracks that ran only a few feet from the store, where men unloaded livestock from Chicago and farther west. Hoober walked into the sparkling new Commerce Bank branch on Lititz Pike, 80-year-old memories of his father and grandfather instantly came to mind. Eric Warfel, Commerce regional vice...

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Cattle producers have always been an independent lot, including when they're trying to get together on public policy. This circus could not come at a worse time for cattle producers who believe their views are not being represented by NCBA, which has 29,000 members to the 15,000 members R-CALF said it had at the beginning of the year. Internal strife leaves cattle group vulnerable to opposition. NCBA has opposed the meat labeling plan, which was enacted by Congress in 2002 but never...