Paying the price for being sick, old or poor in rural America
If you’re elderly, poor and ill in rural America, the odds that you will receive proper healthcare are dwindling with each passing year.
Fine proves what, not who, we truly value
Alan Guebert digs into Big Meat's latest scandal involving a $1.5 million fine paid by a company called Packers Sanitation Services Inc.
Biggest foreign owner of US ‘ag land’ isn’t who you think
Alan Guebert breaks down who's invested in the United States' foreign-owned agricultural land and how it's used.
Didn’t everyone ‘fall’ plow in mild, warm February?
Everyone handled winter differently on the dairy farm of Alan Guebert's youth. He recalls each quirk with reverence in this week's column.
US may have the muscle in a trade fight; Mexico may have the law
Alan Guebert digs into the U.S.'s trade trouble with Mexico, which plans to ban genetically modified corn imports by 2024.
The Great Carbon Boondoggle, part 2
Alan Guebert offers insight as to how Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed carbon pipeline could yield massive profits while greenwashing even more oil money.
‘The Great Carbon Boondoggle,’ part 1
Alan Gubert explains the Oakland Institute's recent assessment of Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed 2,000-mile carbon pipeline across the Midwest.
2023 farm bill delayed by unruly 2023 House GOP
As expected, the 2023 Farm Bill express is not running on time and it will have to navigate the unruly 2023 House GOP — again.
Commodity markets thaw, securities markets remain in deep ice
The commodities and securities markets continue on the paths plowed for them by last year’s inflation, Russia’s war, the global pandemic and politics.
At the year’s end or beginning, it’s never too late for kindness
Alan Guebert's neighborhood clairvoyant listened to peoples' woes and worries before kindly offering her views and, perhaps, visions.
