Grandpa and dad knew balance while farming was vital
Life seems to bounce from one hard lesson to the next. For example, no sooner than someone tells you "It's not about the money,"...
Creaming the co-op: There appears to be no winners in the milk battle
Sometimes it takes a newspaper’s ink-stained thumb to right the scale of justice, and no newspaper has a bigger, inkier thumb than the New...
In California she says tomato; he says GMO delivery device
It’s pretty hard to be taken seriously in any debate if, geographically, you are located on the “Left Coast,” have elected a person known...
Global markets: High speed crazies
If it's a bad idea to play with matches, it's an even worse idea to play with a blowtorch in a fireworks factory. And...
Organic by another name: Science
In most public policy debates, everyone favors “science” until science begins to favor one side over the other. When that occurs, science, suddenly, isn’t...
Autumn’s splendor restores my soul
Somehow a notice went out a week ago to all the blue jays in Illinois that the acorns on (what I think is) a...
The farm bill gamble could be costly
A long, bitter year in the long, bitter Congressional session drifted into the campaign season with the U.S. House of Representatives unable or unwilling...
All the news they want to print
Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born American media titan, is having one tough year on both sides of the Atlantic.
On the Old World side, several of...
Having a beef with Ohio’s checkoff, where cattle will vote … sort of
According to Chicago legend, a tombstone somewhere in the city reads: "John Smith, Born 1934, Died 1981, Voted 1984, 1988, 1992." What makes the...
Having a beef with Ohio’s checkoff, where cattle will vote … sort of
According to Chicago legend, a tombstone somewhere in the city reads: "John Smith, Born 1934, Died 1981, Voted 1984, 1988, 1992". What makes the...
