Targeted Agricultural Education Program

The NCGA’s Targeted Agricultural Education Program is designed to educate the 2008 presidential candidates about issues of importance to growers and their communities and to involve growers in the political process by providing them access to candidates, their organizations and events, as well as the information they need to make an informed choice in the 2008 presidential primaries and general election.

The issues

To help you make an informed choice of candidate on the issues, the NCGA has sent a questionnaire to the presidential campaigns asking them their positions on issues that are important to growers.  In addition, staff and consultants of the Iowa Corn Growers Association have also tracked the candidates’ stated positions on important issues. Choose an issue below to review statements and positions.

Capital Gains Tax	Estate Tax
Ethanol and Renewable Fuels	Farm Bill
Trade

You can also view positions on all these issues taken by a particular candidate and learn more about them and their campaigns by choosing the following links. You also can find information on how to get involved in their campaign.  It is vital that growers become engaged in the process, educating candidates and their staffs about issues important to them and flexing their considerable grassroots muscle.

Democrats	Republicans
Hillary Clinton	John McCain
Barack Obama

Dig deeper

See where the candidates are with the Washington Post’s campaign tracker

Review the MSNBC Issues Matrix

Play the USA Today Candidate Match Game