We need to rebuild rural infrastructure
Today, 61 million country-living Americans are more reliant on our nation’s less reliable bridges and roads for access to their jobs, education, healthcare, and family than are their urban cousins.
Ag trade remains a huge part of farm economy
For better or worse, the U.S. farm economy is deeply tied to trade.
Ag needs less talk, more listening
If politics won't fix growing public problems -- crumbling roads, worsening schools, widening income gaps -- people will find other ways, oftentimes violent, they believe will fix them.
For the record: Gov. Mike Pence on agriculture’s biggest issues
Trump’s anti-trade tirades and Pence’s flip-flops on key farm and ranch issues such as the Farm Bill and renewable fuels could be bad for agriculture.
‘Your arrogance is unbelievable’
Recently, my pastor, a former U.S. Army chaplain, noted that the only thing with a higher rank than a chaplain on any Army helicopter...
The land of non-action actions
Now, courtesy of Congress, our non-legislating legislature, we might soon be buying non-label labeled food.
UK farmers face uncertainty
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will remain the key farm income scheme in the UK, even after the Brexit vote.
Living like a good neighbor
It’s hard to think of summer without thinking of the many neighbors who shared the southern Illinois heat, humidity and mosquitoes on the dairy farm of my youth.
Brexit: ‘Taking farmers for fools’
Caught in the middle of Britain's possible exit from the European Union are UK farmers.
Living a good life at ‘home’
Writer and journalist Gene Logsdon was the "Contrary Farmer," an Ohio-based "cottage farmer" with 32 acres of trees, garden, a rotating collection of livestock, a patch of corn, and "about 593,455,780 weeds."
