Small-town writer challenges agriculture, gets Pulitzer Prize
Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times won journalism’s highest honor for a series of 10 editorials on why Iowa “has the dirtiest surface water in America.”
There goes the neighborhood
Farm and ranch groups are now less social and more tribal. Many have a “we’re-right, you’re-wrong” view of farm and food tech, policy and their customers.
Memories of the auctioneer’s song
In the end, no amount of “stuff” could ever equal Alan Guebert's father's good health, abiding friends, deep faith and 89 years to enjoy it all.
Obamacare overhaul is a failure
Still, the goal now is the same as then: provide the best health care with the most choice to the largest number of Americans at the fairest price.
Farm Credit salaries, big loans should lead to big questions
Lenders will continue to grow, merge and make whale-sized loans unless the farm, ranch and rural owners of the Farm Credit System begin to question them.
As ag swoons, Farm Credit booms
System banks more than doubled their lending, increased their share of U.S ag debt by half and rose to dominate ag lending.
How long will we wait on a new farm bill?
The 2018 farm bill has left the barn. Where it goes from here is impossible to guess.
Obamacare, rural health, and you
If Obamacare needs to be fixed, fix it. If it needs to be fully replaced, replace it. Break it though, and more than 20 million Americans will suffer.
This January wasn’t even fit to spread manure, or much else
It was the first January in memory that delivered more rainfall than sleet, ice and snow combined.
What’s NCBA hiding in the checkoff closet?
If it's nothing, you should know. If it's something, that's an even greater reason for you to know. NCBA knows. You don't. Why?
