Sid Miller and Nate Sheets compete in this race.
The primary election is one month away. Check out our voter guide to see candidate profiles, recommendations and build your sample ballot This year’s Republican primary for Texas agriculture commissioner pits incumbent rodeo cowboy Sid Miller against businessman Nate Sheets.
The founder of Nature Nate’s Honey, Sheets brings knowledge, experience and strong ideas about how to help producers and consumers in our state. We recommend him over Miller, who has made a joke of the office.Sheets spoke during our interview about the need to make farming more profitable. He also mentioned reducing regulations, though he noted health and safety must always be a consideration when it comes to food.Sheets demonstrated excellent command of many other issues, including a desire for safe, healthful and nutritious food, national security concerns related to the supply chain, consolidation in the agriculture industry and the loss of Texas farmland.“Rural Texas is being hollowed out as consolidation pushes family producers out and multinational corporations capture more of the food dollar,” Sheets wrote in our Voter Guide. After so many years under Miller’s leadership, it’s refreshing to see a competent candidate talking about the real issues Texas agriculture faces. Miller was first elected agriculture commissioner in 2014. His tenure has been marked by the bizarre, the baffling and theLast year, Miller hired as his chief of staff someone who pleaded guilty to bribery. When the Texas cattle industry was threatened by a parasitic pest, Miller botched the response and earned aMiller, who spends much of his day posting to social media, is running in a party that tends to reject members who aren’t sufficiently loyal, but that isn’t a problem for this cowboy. No, he’s actually so incompetent that even today’s GOP won’t tolerate him anymore. Gov. Greg Abbott has We recently interviewed a group of Texas farmers and ranchers. When we mentioned the agriculture commissioner — not Miller by name, just his office — they busted out laughing. That’s how much of a joke this man is. Miller appears more concerned with slopping memes, many of them offensive, on social media than with doing his actual job. Plus, there’s his persistent and public, uh, interest, in actorAgriculture is too important to let Miller’s clown show continue. We believe Sheets can return competency and professionalism here. We strongly encourage voters to choose him in this primary.Dallas Morning News editorials are written by the paper's Editorial Board and serve as the voice and view of the paper. The board considers a broad range of topics and is overseen by the Editorial Page Editor.
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