Population trends help predict long-term ag outlook
Population shifts around the world are likely good predictors of how demand in the agricultural industry will adapt in the long term.
Agricultural policy was about cultural stability, not endless market growth
Alan Guebert proposes putting citizens and communities at the center of ag policy instead of markets and consumers and seeing what happens.
‘The ceaseless drive to endless increase …’
Our fear of hunger dictates a food system where farmers are embedded in a system that pushes for ever-higher yields, production, exports and profits.
Could California’s Proposition 12 be an opportunity for farmers?
Alan Guebert weighs in on the perceptions of California's Proposition 12, which aims to set minimum welfare standards for livestock and poultry products.
Given what we don’t know, why do we act like we do know?
Given our broad ignorance of Africa, why do we still think we know what's best for this incredibly diverse, enormous continent's farm and food sectors?
USDA: Net farm income for 2022 will rise $7.3 billion
According to estimates released by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Sept. 1, net farm income for 2022 will rise $7.3 billion to hit $147.7 billion.
No ethanol doesn’t mean no profit
Perhaps, ethanol is not the direction we should be going, according to some academics from the corn belt. Alan Guebert weighs in on their perspective.
When every day was ‘labor day’
Every day was labor day on the dairy farm of Alan Guebert's youth. For Howard, the work and milking parlor conversations added up to a life he enjoyed.
All hats, no cattle and little chance
Ranchers and feeders get more pie-in-the-sky talk while the big four meatpackers continue to carve up markets both here and abroad.
From Catalonia to California, it has been one long, hot summer
Alan Guebert warns the world is running out of luck fast as extreme heat due to climate change threatens crop production internationally.
