New Ag Group Aims To Tell Ag’s True Story

The organization known as “The Hand That Feeds U.S.” has formed to educate urban news reporters, answer agriculture’s critics, and explain why farmers and farm policy are so important to the nation’s future. The American Sugar Alliance and the peanut, rice, cotton, corn, sorghum and ethanol industries have joined forces and introduced their website: www.thehandthatfeedsus.org.

Linda Raun, a rice grower from Texas, is a spokeswoman for the campaign. She said producers haven’t done a good enough job telling the media their story, which has led to agriculture being “demonized” in many of the nation’s top media markets.