Friday Farm News Roundup

Published: September 21, 2007, 7:54 pm

The big news in agriculture this week is the resignation of U.S Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, who is expected to make a run for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska. The Des Moines Register has a story with biographical information about Charles Connor, who has stepped in as an interim U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.In his final address as U.S. Agriculture Secretary, Johanns closed his remarks by saying, "For a farm boy from Iowa, this truly has been an opportunity of a lifetime. As I have often noted, I never dreamed of becoming Secretary of Agriculture as a child because it seemed so far removed from our 160-acre farm. I hope young people growing-up on farms and in rural communities today realize that no dream is too big in America." Johanns was born in Osage, Iowa. Iowa agriculture secretary Bill Northey today sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requesting that they extend the public comment period on an EPA science report on the hypoxic zone in the

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