Community Supported Ag still an American mainstay
Interest in Community Supported Agriculture program remains strong.
Where’s the SNAP charity and love?
Perhaps we can agree that spending just $3, and maybe even $4, out of every $1,000 of GDP isn't too much for the richest country in the history of the world to feed its hungry.
Free trade deals not about economics
Given today’s global economy, poisonous politics and trans-national interests, however, many of Big Ag’s biggest trade backers don’t see as simple or divine.
Once again, the numbers never add up
Some commentary on Congress and the numbers.
Taking a look at recent newspaper quotes in conversation on farm topics
A renewable fuel standard and immigration are two farm topics that have been in the news recently.
The Iowa Agricultural Summit: Just call him Bruce, not kingmaker
Columnist Alan Guebert did not attend the Iowa Agricultural Summit March 7 in Des Moines because, oh dear, this is embarrassing, he was not invited.
Striving to be more than average
No one in farming or ranching buys a bag of seed corn or a couple of young bulls hoping for an average corn crop or an average calf crop.
The future of food and farming will look a lot like our past
To look ahead, we also need to look behind, at where we've been.
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.
Common threads of Big Ag and ‘New Ag’ success farming takes risk, commitment
The Progressive Farmer magazine's February issue resembles most mid-winter issues of most U.S. farm magazines.
