Climate change or weather extreme?
The USDA would like some staff members to refer to "climate change" as "weather extremes" and "climate change adaption" as "resilience to weather extremes."
Making and breaking the rules
Alan Guebert reflects on recent changes to the USDA budget, and Sam Clovis' nomination to be USDA’s undersecretary of research, education, and economics.
Morning dew predicts the forecast
Alan Guebert recalls baling hay on his family farm, during his youth.
The reality of rural internet: stupidly expensive, unreliable
While the rest of the world is moving on to even faster internet connectivity, 39 percent of rural America remains stuck in the internet slow lane.
Readers react to the Farm and Food File
Six months may have passed since readers last got their say in this space but nothing during that time has mellowed their views of this effort.
Too many cooks, not enough cooking up new trade policies
The trade cooks at the White House will continue to search for a trade recipe that they hope will boost ag exports.
Amazon looks to profit from online retailing
After buying Whole Foods, Amazon looks to get their customers out of packed parking lots, crowded stores and long checkout lines to buy groceries online.
Rural Development isn’t broken…yet
Sonny Perdue says give him a year to fix Rural Development programs. Fix what? The much needed, heavily used programs aren’t broken. Yet.
The president denies climate change, despite the evidence
According to Alan Guebert, the point is as simple as it is apparent: climate change is happening and will continue to happen.
Meat, money cooks up corruption
Alan Guebert gives his take on corruption within the beef industry and questions the pros and cons of country of origin labeling.
