JBS plan to purchase two major packers and to vertically integrate the feeding sector will give JBS an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control cash cattle prices.

Editor:
Your unsigned article ( Electoral College: Outdated or necessary evil?, March 20, 2008) on the Electoral College considered only two possibilities: Either it is outdated or it is an evil.
Is that bias or is it BIAS? If, as your Farm and Dairy article seems to imply, the Electoral College should be abolished, the Senate also […]

Editor:
I do not believe the Geauga County Fair Board handled the steer situation in their county in a wise manner.
Before this situation in this and another Ohio county, I thought the rules were made and enforced by the Ohio Department of Agriculture since the state fair steer scandal.
When I was a 4-H adviser several years […]

Editor:
Ah, it’s all over with. The Republican party has chosen John McCain as its probable nominee.
Now we won’t have to listen to Ron Paul repeatedly talking about restoring government to a Constitutional size, let alone reviving the Constitution itself. Or the citizens again having individual freedoms and a sound monetary system.
We can once again focus […]

Editor:
In the recent past, we have been overwhelmed by activists, the media and political leaders concerning the 50 million people in this country who lack access to medical care. This is obviously a grave and vital issue, but another, even more serious problem, is an ongoing tragedy.
It is the near total lack of quality within […]

Editor:
No organization in America discriminates against religion more than the American Civil Liberties Union. This infamous group has launched a systematic war against religion in America. It has already won the following major battles:
Ban prayer in public schools. Ban nativity scenes. Ban prayer at graduation ceremonies. Ban the Ten Commandments. Ban teachers from having Bibles […]

Editor: I am a 4-H’er in Trumbull County who sold animals in the livestock sale, which took place July 14.

Editor: At a time that we are being drowned in a sea of illegal aliens and at risk daily from Islamo-fascist terrorists, the Bush administration is quietly advancing the construction of a massive superhighway that will all but obliterate our borders with Canada and Mexico.

Editor: I would like to renounce the rumors that seem to be abounding in the area about the Rogers sale.

Editor: It was interesting to read Jerome K. Stephens’ letter concerning DDT and Rachel Carson (With DDT use, comes resistant insects, July 5, 2007).