Hagstrom Report to cover Iowa Ag Summit on email, Twitter
March 06, 2015 |01:01 PM
As Republican presidential candidates and journalists head to Des Moines for the Iowa Ag Summit on Saturday at which businessman and Republican donor Bruce Ratsetter will interview each of the candidates in attendance, The Hagstrom Report is preparing to cover the event by sending emails to subscribers and shorter accounts on Twitter @hagstromreport.
The Iowa Ag Summit will also be webcast live by The Des Moines Register. (See link below.)
Farm Policy has also posted a set of stories on the subject.
Our Iowa Neighbors has sent the candidates a letter urging them to discuss the issue of immigration.
“Like the summit’s organizers, we believe issues relating to agriculture are vital to the future economic direction of our state and nation,” the letter says. “But there is one agriculture issue that may not get the attention it deserves: immigration.”
“Immigration is vital to the agriculture economy,” the letter continues.
“According to the 2009 National Agricultural Worker Study, as much as 50 percent of farm laborers are unauthorized workers. Our broken immigration system is one of the most critical challenges facing our nation’s immigrants, businesses, and families, and the next president will have a profound influence over the future of comprehensive reform in our country,” the letter says.
The Oakland Institute, a California group critical of Rastetter, also published a post on Thursday discussing Rastetter’s involvement in agriculture in Africa. The Oakland Institute is one of the groups involved in the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement's counter event in Des Moines this weekend, the “Food and Ag Justice Summit.”
The Iowa Ag Summit will also be webcast live by The Des Moines Register. (See link below.)
Farm Policy has also posted a set of stories on the subject.
Our Iowa Neighbors has sent the candidates a letter urging them to discuss the issue of immigration.
“Like the summit’s organizers, we believe issues relating to agriculture are vital to the future economic direction of our state and nation,” the letter says. “But there is one agriculture issue that may not get the attention it deserves: immigration.”
“Immigration is vital to the agriculture economy,” the letter continues.
“According to the 2009 National Agricultural Worker Study, as much as 50 percent of farm laborers are unauthorized workers. Our broken immigration system is one of the most critical challenges facing our nation’s immigrants, businesses, and families, and the next president will have a profound influence over the future of comprehensive reform in our country,” the letter says.
The Oakland Institute, a California group critical of Rastetter, also published a post on Thursday discussing Rastetter’s involvement in agriculture in Africa. The Oakland Institute is one of the groups involved in the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement's counter event in Des Moines this weekend, the “Food and Ag Justice Summit.”
