The ‘good cop, bad cop’ trade plan
Alan Guebert says U.S. farmers have every right to howl over the administration's "mitigation" payment schemes and its counterproductive tariff policy.
USDA agencies caught in middle
Alan Guebert says a hallmark of the Trump administration’s management of farm policy is picking fights that are as costly to win as they are to lose.
The measured steps of a steady man
Allan Guebert recalls the steady way his father lived and died.
The troubling dairy economy
Alan Guebert reflects on what lies ahead for the dairy industry.
Will the farm bill get done on time?
While the Senate and House each passed versions of the farm bill earlier this summer, neither is in a hurry to combine them before leaving Capitol Hill.
We can deal with trade standoffs
History shows that farm trade standoffs are short-term arguments that can be handled. The lasting problem is when they ignite global economic fires.
The sweet bridge of summer
On the southern Illinois dairy farm of Alan Guebert's youth, July was a slow, sweet bridge between spring's hard hustle and fall's quickening step.
Readers respond to the Farm and Food File
Allan Guebert recalls some of the feedback — both positive and negative — he's received in regards to his column this year.
Smoothing things over for ag
Trump's called-for renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement has led to one merry-go-round-after-round of tough talk and tight smiles.
Ireland’s farms, food and future
Since Alan Guebert's last visit in 2008, Dublin seems to have gone global.
