Coming to the table

Being an equal opportunity blogger, I left a comment about Secretary Johanns in www.mulchblog.com, which is written by Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group. He responded in an email-note:

On the substance of things, we’re sure seeing a lot of ‘specialty crop’ producers coming to the table.The cautionary note I’ll sound is this, having been there on conservation for several decades now: without an ironclad claim on funding, including a willingness to take it out of commodity programs, specialty crop growers shouldn’t count on much.


His point about the "willingness to take it out of commodity programs," illustrates the uphill climb that fruit and vegetable interests face. It is hard to fight City Hall, and no less the House and Senate Agriculture Committees.