What to look for in an ag secretary
Alan Guebert ponders how challenging it is to find one person with the combined skills needed to fill the about to open job of the secretary of agriculture.
Gambling on the future of food
Alan Guebert explains how three events on consecutive mid-November days show farmers, ranchers and all Americans where U.S. agriculture is now.
Guebert: still thankful this holiday
Alan Guebert urges us to remember this year is about what we did to persevere, to stick, even though events or people pulled us toward failure.
November winds are blowing big change
Alan Guebert mulls over how the muddled results of the recent general election will impact U.S. farm policy.
What’s behind China’s buying spree?
Alan Guebert reflects on how China’s swift recovery from the viral pandemic it spawned is now the key driver in world ag markets.
Abstractions, distractions, subtraction
Alan Guebert ponders what Americans face this week, after national elections — straight up arithmetic or political mathematics.
‘We’ can accomplish more than ‘they’
Alan Guebert ponders on the way rural America has become charged over the “theys” in today’s bitter election-year politics.
Big Ag counting on the ‘Blue Dog’
Alan Guebert explains why Collin Peterson, the chairman of the House Ag Committee, could be the face of today’s political divide in rural America.
It’s time for some honest dishonesty
Alan Guebert misses the honest dishonesty of a past political environment and the characters and competence it usually fostered.
‘Perilous Bounty’ is a tour of big ag
Alan Guebert provides a look inside "Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It," by Tom Philpott.
