Farming, Food's Impact on Politics Subject of Discussion, Nov. 12

"What's on Our Dinner Plate? How Farming Drives Politics and Politics Drives Farming" will be the topic of a discussion/debate by agriculture columnist Alan Guebert and DennisVercler, Illinois Farm Bureau communications director, on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.  The event will take place in Illinois State University's Bone Student Center Third Floor East Lounge.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of McLean County and the Illinois State University Student Chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association (ISU-NAMA). 

Guebert and Vercler, who often have opposing views on the subject, will discuss and debate how farming and food affect politics and the lives of every American.  Guebert's syndicated agriculture column, The Farm and Food File, appears weekly in more than 70 newspapers throughout the US and Canada.  He also writes Letter from America, a monthly column on U.S. agriculture and ag policy for magazines and newspapers in Europe and Asia.  Vercler, is director of news and communications for the Bloomington-based Illinois Farm Bureau.  He is publisher of the 80,000-reader FarmWeek newspaper and a new 330,000-reader magazine, Partners, designed for non-farmer members of the Illinois Farm Bureau.