Dairy farmers mooch it up in Maine
Most freelance writers are born moochers.
With no corporate travel budget behind them and a flood-or-dust income stream in front of them, the art of mooching - traveling, dining, drinking and vacationing on other peoples' tabs - quickly becomes a way of life.
Eminent domain decision: no shock, and qualified, if you follow history
To hear the major newspapers and farm groups tell it, the world of private property rights collapsed June 23.
Reporter moves to different ‘beat’
Hemingway went to Paris to discover, he once explained, if "I could write two good sentences."
While there, however, Papa wrote two good books, The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms.
Farm and Food File: Mad over mad cow disease testing
Once, while researching the amount of grain the USDA's Commodity Credit Corp. had in storage, I hit the brick-solid bureaucratic wall of silence.
Why may ethanol be imported?
The harder anyone scratches the Central American Free Trade Agreement pushed by the White House, the worse the smell in American agriculture gets.
Made in America? Yeah, right
After a sip of (Brazilian) orange juice and a nibble of bacon (from a market hog farrowed in Canada), U.
Talking the truth about trade
You know you're far off the reality map when the American Farm Bureau's former president, Iowan Dean Kleckner, publicly praises the Humane Society of the United States for its support of Central American Free Trade Agreement.
School’s in session across Potomac
If you think schoolchildren dread summer school, consider the eight-week summer session agriculture's friends in Congress face.
Supreme confusion over checkoff
After the U.S. Supreme Court surprised both sides of the beef checkoff court fight May 23 by declaring the $80-million-per-year mandatory tax constitutional, opponents and proponents alike offered a dizzying display of spin.
Got debt? Milk giant downgraded
The finances of Dairy Farmers of America are souring faster than cream in a July sun, according to a May 9 Moody's Investors Service report.
