As members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees seek to repeal mandatory country-of-origin labeling, backers tout a new survey from the Consumer Federation of America citing that 90% of Americans favor labeling the origin of meat.

It's been more than a year and a half since MF Global's collapse froze the funds of more than 30,000 customers. Most commodities customers have received nearly 90% of what was in their accounts, but the structural flaws MF Global and later Peregrine Financial Group exposed are just now being taken up by Congress. (And you thought the claims process was slow!)

DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- My family is great for sayings. One of my grandmother's favorites is: "The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment."