Farm Foundation holds forum to get details from presidential campaigns on agriculture, rural issues

Farm Foundation, which specializes in non-partisan research and policy forums on agriculture and rural issues, hosted a forum today with representatives from the two major presidential campaigns. Former Agriculture Secretary John Block represented John McCain; former assistant secretary of agriculture and former agricultural newsletter publisher James C. Webster represented Barack Obama.

Urban Lehner, editor-in-chief of DTN, moderated the two-hour discussion at the National Press Club. An audio file of the forum is available here.