Keith Collins Quotations

U. S. meat exports continue to be heavily influenced by animal diseases.

We're still expecting poultry exports year-over-year to go up. Our major poultry export markets are places like Russia and Mexico and China, and they continue to buy from us.

One thing the government could do would be to increase the amount of butter that could be imported without tariff, and that would provide ice cream producers and other users some additional supplies of butter,

Obviously, this is going to add to that. This is something where farmers have very little opportunity to do alternative things. They end up generally eating the higher fuel costs.

I think ethanol, rather than China, could be the No 1 factor affecting corn prices in the future.

While demand remains strong, the farm economy will be challenged by large stacks of crops built up by abundant harvests the last two years, livestock expansion, higher interest rates and energy costs, animal-disease issues and weather.

We probably really are not going to get a test on what happens with cattle prices until we get into next week, and we start to see the normal resumption of cash market trading,

While it's serious to individual producers, from a national perspective, Katrina won't have much impact, ... The consumer won't feel it. Millions of chickens have been lost, but in Mississippi alone, you slaughter 5 million a day.

We've been at the zenith of the agricultural cycle, and we're not going to stay there.

tells us that we ought to be importing beef from (a country) where the beef is safe regardless of what that country does.

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That's where we will see how big a push the White House really has in mind.

It's about a simple interface that allows you to search across multiple types of information and get it all back as collection.

Sharply higher energy prices are cutting into net farm income and will likely continue to affect production input and marketing costs in 2006,

Their loyalty is not to the United States financially. On the other side, nobody's going to do the work that they do ... without health benefits.