Potash pullout: From Russia with love
The July 30 news that Uralkali, the huge Russian potash producer, was pulling out of the global fertilizer cartel might be that nation’s richest...
You know the saying, ‘with friends like these’? How it’s playing in D.C.
So you think you’re going to get a farm bill by the time the budget brawl breaks out Oct. 1?
Political dysfunction: D.C. haymakers won’t fill the barn this year
The hay is blooming, the sun is shining and, in the coming month, Congress is bringing its dysfunction to a VFW hall or church basement near you.
Ridin’ the Capitol Hill crazy train
After a 10-day cooling off period known as the Fourth of July recess, House and Senate members came back to steamy, hot Washington, D.C....
Readers respond to past columns
Twice a year readers who write, telephone or send drone aircraft to my office take over this space to air their gripes, grievances and...
‘Farm and Food File’ celebrates 20 years
In yet another testament to the careful inattention this office consistently pays to the career of its founding (and, as ever, only) staff member,...
Please tell me you remember, right??
If you thought the farm bill fight was bad, you’re gonna hate the coming battle over the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
June, farm bill could be another mess
June meant the end of school, the beginning of summer and the arrival of dairy month.Now, somehow, June has become the Golf Channel’s official...
Top 10 reasons to love the China deal
There's many reasons to be thrilled about Shuanghui International Holding Inc.’s proposed $4.7 billion purchase of Smithfield Foods, Inc. Here's only 10...
A closer look at farmland values
The mild winter affected U.S. farmland values only mildly.
Summer, however, may cool ‘em. According to the much-followed Seventh Federal Reserve District quarterly land survey...
