Brewing storm: 2015 net farm income could be lower than 1990s
Can U.S. farmers take a whopping hit to their bottom line and still be standing five years from now?
Confirmation Sunday: Starting down the path to heaven in front of a forsythia bush
We may have thought Confirmation Sunday as parole day from catechism purgatory but (as our gray-haired elders predicted back then) it would become the first step on a journey of deeper understanding and deeper commitment.
JBS beef buy is bad for everyone
If JBS Swift's buyout of National Beef, Smithfield's beef slaughter operations and Smithfield's massive Five Rivers Cattle Feeding LLC, the nation's largest cattle feedlot with one-time capacity of 811,000 head, the three remaining firms will have over 80 percent market share of U.S. steer/heifer slaughter.
Farm bill discussions are ‘ridiculous’
Be it bird hunting in Minnesota or vote hunting on Capitol Hill, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson is seen as a straight shooter of both pheasants and fools.
Bubba’ isn’t only rural American
Columnist Alan Guebert tries to figure out what a 'Bubba' is and if it will matter in the election.
Stuck with farm bill mess until 2018
The low whimpering and muffled whining heard in farm country this month are not the gripes and grunts of corn and soybean growers trudging through 2015's purgatory of under-$4 corn and less-than-$10 beans.
Bigger and bigger and …
It was, literally, a sight for sore eyes. Two years ago March 12, trumpets blasted in Ankeny, Iowa, as America's new gladiators for agricultural...
Mom was a hard worker, may she now rest in peace
Alan Guebert remembers all of his mother's best qualities following her passing on April 22.
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.
Trump’s policies on current ag issues put to a stormy test
Frustrated that America’s NAFTA partners want to negotiate his proposed changes to the North American free trade deal, Trump took to Twitter.
