The end is near (sigh) again
In the decade-long, tens-of-billions-of-dollars effort to sell the world on a global free trade deal, several things did not happen. Didn’t come close. First,...
Remember why Tobey Farmer died
On this Memorial Day, remember Abraham Lincoln's challenge: "It is for us the living to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced."
Let’s feed ourselves vegetables, too
Squeeze almost any official of almost any agbiz or farm group and the words “Feed the world” will cross their lips. The phrase is...
Farm and Food File: One + one is still two (except in D.C.)
Politicians are so good at the muddled math of their budget game that they can turn the equation upside down and make it work in reverse: $1 of budget savings today can be legislated into $2 of tax cuts tomorrow.
Farm and Food File: Gee, what a coincidence…
In a Jan. 27 conference call with Wall Street analysts, the president and CEO of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, the world's leading supplier of potash, couldn't offer "an exact number" where potash prices might nick demand.
‘… to operate as needed’ is not what’s needed for many farmers
Farm groups, commodity organizations and most ag checkoffs have spent 25 years and billions dollars refining and repeating their modern message: American agriculture is...
My budget plan: Annex Canada
Sure, Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, has a 10-year plan to take this country back from the poor, the...
Finally seeing the reverence of land
For 35 years I have returned to Indian Farm, when I can, to replenish what it first gave me as a child.
To NCBA leaders, silence is golden
By law and by USDA's failure "to restore operational integrity" to the checkoff, NCBA remains the single, biggest benefactor of checkoff cash.
Real ag agenda seems to be football and pheasants
In Congress, the House aggies aren't exactly tied up with policy debates to address, say, today's soaring food prices, the nation's perilously thin food stocks or a dysfunctional federal dairy policy.
