By Al Berry
In the Field Agriculture Magazine
Hillsborough County farmers and ranchers turned out in mass for Adam Putnam’s political rally Monday night, August 31, at the home of Larry and Debbie Swindle in Dover. The Swindle’s Home Place Barn was the perfect setting and you could feel the excitement in the air.
In February of this [...]

Putnam said the restrictions on imported food will benefit consumers.
By Bill Rufty
Ledger POLITICAL EDITOR
LAKELAND | U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam will have to wait until after Congress’s August recess to have his food safety provisions considered by the U.S. Senate. But the Bartow Republican’s staff says he is confident that the restrictions on imported food will [...]

By Adam Putnam, Special to the S. Petersburg Times
Published Monday, July 20, 2009
Congress is an institution typically not known for its speed or agility. Yet, with the urging of the president, it is rushing to consider major health care reform legislation that would affect one-seventh of the nation’s economy.
Your choice of physicians and the kind [...]

WASHINGTON — For two years, as chairman of the House Republican Conference, Adam Putnam managed the daily message and served as his party’s pit bull in chief. It was a job that kept him in the national spotlight and then, after the November election, threatened to make him irrelevant.

By Kevin Bouffard
The Ledger
Published: Monday, April 20, 2009 at 12:01 a.m.
BARTOW | One day after dropping out of the race, former state Rep. Marty Bowen endorsed U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam for Florida Agriculture Commissioner.
“It’s important for people who care about agriculture to rally around one candidate,” Bowen said in a statement read Monday to the [...]

By Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.)
Posted: 03/24/09 03:30 PM [ET]
Among all the spending and taxing ideas in President Obama’s budget is one that that deserves a short and swift dismissal by anyone interested in returning this economy to sound footing: a 33 percent increase in the effective long-term capital gains tax from 15 percent to 20 [...]

During the past few months, the American food supply has been rocked, yet again, by an incident of food-borne illness. This time, the culprit — salmonella-contaminated peanut butter — has infected more than 600 people, reaching into almost every state in the union. It is an unfortunate reminder of how badly our food-safety laws need reform.

BARTOW | U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam officially kicked off his campaign for Florida’s commissioner of agriculture and consumer services with a politically star-studded cast designed to get his platform across and to put his opponents for the job on notice.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Florida Rep. Adam Putnam, a former member of the House Republican leadership, said Sunday he will leave Congress to run for agriculture commissioner in his home state next year.