FOOD SAFETY DURING AN EMERGENCY
A loss of power from natural disasters can jeopardize the safety of your food. Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and reduce the risk of foodborne illness. A Consumer's Guide to Food Safety: Severe Storms which will help you make the right decisions for keeping your family safe during an emergency.
A Grassroots Approach to Our Chronic Labor Shortage
On December 6, 2011, Commissioner John McMillan hosted a meeting, in Mobile to bring agribusiness owners and farmers together with federal and state officials to help solve the chronic labor shortages created by Alabama's new immigration law.
Immigration a hot topic at legislative forum
Members of the local legislative delegation took several jabs Tuesday over concerns about the state’s immigration bill, economy and treatment of teachers.
More than 100 people attended the public forum held at Athens State University hosted by State Sens. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, Bill Holtzclaw, R-Madison and State Reps. Mac McCutcheon, R-Capshaw and Dan Williams, R-Athens.
State Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, who co-sponsored House Bill 56 was scheduled to appear at the forum, but was absent.
McMillan to Obama: Time is now to send the Free Trade Agreements to Congress
It's time to strike while the issue is hot and now is the time for President Obama to send the Free Trade Agreements to Congress for ratification.
“The President says he’s serious about creating jobs. The Free Trade Agreements will create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs, and without a bailout or a new federal bureaucracy,” said Commissioner John McMillan of the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries.
As many as 15,000 good-paying jobs will come to Alabama as a result of ratification of three Free Trade Agreements, according to McMillan, who said that Alabama farmers and agribusinesses will directly benefit from the free trade legislation.
