Blanche Lincoln: “Over the last decade, we have seen deregulation sweep over America in a way that has simply devastated our economy.”

Everyone should agree that 50 years of a failed policy is unlikely to yield a different result than it already has.

It is truly the uncertainty and unpredictability that comes out of Washington that is going to fail us in trying to put our economy back on track and put people back to work if we do not provide a greater certainty to growers.

I am going to make no apologies whatsoever for standing up for the hard-working farm families across this country.

The Russian market is worth $100 million annually to Arkansas producers, and the decision to lift the ban will help save 89,000 poultry jobs that are critical to Arkansas's economy.