The Iowa Agricultural Summit: Just call him Bruce, not kingmaker
Columnist Alan Guebert did not attend the Iowa Agricultural Summit March 7 in Des Moines because, oh dear, this is embarrassing, he was not invited.
Striving to be more than average
No one in farming or ranching buys a bag of seed corn or a couple of young bulls hoping for an average corn crop or an average calf crop.
The future of food and farming will look a lot like our past
To look ahead, we also need to look behind, at where we've been.
Stuck with farm bill mess until 2018
The low whimpering and muffled whining heard in farm country this month are not the gripes and grunts of corn and soybean growers trudging through 2015's purgatory of under-$4 corn and less-than-$10 beans.
Common threads of Big Ag and ‘New Ag’ success farming takes risk, commitment
The Progressive Farmer magazine's February issue resembles most mid-winter issues of most U.S. farm magazines.
Big Ag’s weak hand in nitrate fight
In May 2013 Iowa implemented the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, a program that all but admitted the state’s ag runoff was a growing problem that required joint attention from farmers, local communities and the state.
The COOL facts: American people love it, others don’t
Country of origin labeling, or COOL, for meat, fruit, vegetables and nuts sold in the U.S. has been kicked around by the courts, politicians, international trade panels and special interest farm groups since it became law in 2008.
Winter from the window
Short snaps of deep cold were not rare but all were deeply unwelcome. The cows, the hired men, the plumbing, the shivering calves, the machinery—everyone and everything—moved slower or not at all when temperatures fell to zero or below.
Patterns: Welcome back, foodie
We didn’t know it back then but everyone on the big southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth was a foodie.
2015 is dirt’s big year to shine
This year, center your resolutions around soil health.
