Preserving our garden’s last stand
Growing up during the Depression era, Alan Guebert's mother developed a hardness against waste. And so his family ate "the last of the garden," regularly.
A game of high stakes and bad bets
One minute we’re celebrating a trade deal that’s years from enactment, the next we’re hoping no one notices the lack of a farm bill that's needed.
With President Trump, you basically get what you voted for
Donald Trump's trade policy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rising crop estimates are putting pressure on farmers and ranchers.
Does this sound familiar when it comes to a new farm bill?
Alan Guebert believes Congress, the White House and most commodity groups are positioning U.S. agriculture to repeat that colossal farm bill failure.
September standoffs on the Hill
Alan Guebert reflects on Congress' slow, circular march to some legislative nowhere as September days evaporate.
Emergency payments made deep problem
Alan Guebert reflects on comments made by a pair of ag experts about the White House's announcement about its $12 billion tariff mitigation package July 24.
The ‘good cop, bad cop’ trade plan
Alan Guebert says U.S. farmers have every right to howl over the administration's "mitigation" payment schemes and its counterproductive tariff policy.
USDA agencies caught in middle
Alan Guebert says a hallmark of the Trump administration’s management of farm policy is picking fights that are as costly to win as they are to lose.
The measured steps of a steady man
Allan Guebert recalls the steady way his father lived and died.
The troubling dairy economy
Alan Guebert reflects on what lies ahead for the dairy industry.
