As farmers, we’re proud of the role we play in feeding America. All we ask is that nutrition policy recognizes the full picture — and that lawmakers remember you can’t build a healthy diet without a strong farm economy to support it.

Isn’t it time that consumers be allowed to choose the best beef in the world produced under the best of conditions?

If your sadness ever becomes too heavy and you feel unsafe, overwhelmed, or find yourself thinking about harming yourself, please don’t carry that alone.

More than 4,000 farmer and rancher Farm Bureau members gathered for the 107th American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, held earlier this month in Anaheim, California.

This year is the International Year of the Woman Farmer, and Farm Bureau has been working for months to champion and celebrate the occasion.

A word of caution: Do not get between reality and political forces in Congress when Republicans and Democrats agree to spend more money on farm programs rather than reform the very programs that are failing farmers and rural America.

When farmers and ranchers come together, they don’t just talk about challenges — they get to work finding solutions.

Many of the changes in the new food guidelines issued recently by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services were red meat to farmers and ranchers.

Fresh from the farm. American grown. Those words bring to mind quality and value, thanks to the hardworking men and women across this country who are proud to be called farmers.