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ASA Completes Presidential Hopeful Sharing
Published Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 04:42 AM
The benefits of good policies for agriculture do not stop at the door of farm families, but support both rural and urban economies with the food and fiber industry creating 25 million jobs, producing 3.5 trillion dollars in output, and accounting for 15 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product. That’s larger than the construction, transportation, and utilities industries combined.
ASA President John Hoffman, a soybean producer from Waterloo, Iowa, says - we very much hope that agriculture and other issues of importance to rural Americans play a prominent role in the forthcoming national policy debate.
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