The Wind Machine

●  The United Fresh Produce Association sent out its ballot for 2012 officers and board members today. This brought to

● Biotechnology continues to be a contentious issue. Of note is a concentrated effort afoot by the Center for Food

● Wednesday, January 4, was the day set for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to publish draft rules on

● Last Tuesday, Mitt Romney announced his agriculture advisory committee, a group co-chaired by Senator Mike Johanns, a former USDA

●  Norm Dicks  will not be serving in the 113th Congress. On March 2, Mr. Dicks (D/Washington) announced he will

● A report to Congress was issue in February by the Food and Drug Administration on its foreign office program.

● The United Fresh Produce Association held town hall meetings in both Wenatchee and Yakima this week. Two of its

● A flurry of meetings will be held in Washington, D.C., the week of March 12. I will travel back

● After two trips to Washington, D.C., in January, I am even more convinced that between a tight political calendar,

● Yesterday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (Democrat, Washington) visited Yakima, with one of her stops being at the Yakima Valley