A change in the wind is coming
As fall approaches, the signs of the season are becoming more clear.
Call farming like it is: slaughtering, drugs, herbicides and manure
Columnist says farmers need to stop sugarcoating what they do.
Twenty years later, the GMO fight goes on
Consumer concerns over GMOs are not going away.
Heavyweight India defies WTO deal
800 million people can't be wrong, right?
Yup, fact is stranger than fiction
Herman Melville was a pretty good fiction writer, but his 1851 whale of a tale -- something about a big fish and a peg-legged man named Ahab -- was, in fact, based on the true story of the American whaling ship Essex that, in 1820, was attacked and sunk by a huge whale in the South Pacific.
While Congress is on recess, there is much we can still learn
Congress left a lot undone, before going on summer recess.
High prices: What’s a carnivore to do?
If most Americans followed commodity prices as blindly as they follow the Kardashians, the national dinner menu might well feature bushels of cheaper-by-the-day grains and teaspoons of record-priced pork, beef, poultry and fish.
‘Missouri Farmers Care’ falls short in some major areas
You'd think that a state constitution eight times longer than the U.S. Constitution might cover every right, act or idea any of its citizens might need, do or ponder.
Silly season, again, in Washington
The Washington Nationals are the real show in our nation's Capital.
Checkoffs: More and more of the same
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there now are federal commodity checkoffs for beef, blueberries, Christmas trees, cotton, dairy products, eggs, fluid milk, Hass avocados, “Honey Packers and Importers,” lamb, mango, mushrooms, paper and paper-based packaging, peanuts, popcorn, pork, potatoes, processed raspberries, softwood lumber, sorghum, soybeans and watermelons.
