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 troubling dairy economy
Alan Guebert reflects on what lies ahead for the dairy industry.
Nowhere to hide at low tide
Many ag companies followed a pattern of higher stock prices from January through late April and then faced hard declines. Alan Guebert explains why.
The pile-ups start to pile up
Evidence continues to pile up that today's political and grain market pile-ups will be bigger and messier than first thought.
Nothing hotter than an August Sunday
The only thing hotter than the August nights on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth were the August days, and the only...
MF Global was not running on vapor
The lead story on the front page of the Jan. 30 Wall Street Journal reported "that a 'significant amount'" of an estimated $1.2 billion in customer money that disappeared when investment bank MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed "could have 'vaporized' as a result of chaotic trading ... the week before the company's Oct. 31 bankruptcy filing."
Hey, rural America, do your civic duty. Or not.
Alan Guebert digs into the USMCA trade deal and takes a closer look at 2019 ag exports and the still-in-place tariffs that are clipping U.S. exports.
Rest easy, Bob Zoellick’s on the job
Columnist Alan Guebert says like Eric Clapton, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick is a god
’07 farm bill: Seeing the light of day
The big wins Senate and House Democrats enjoyed Nov. 7 will deliver them bigger titles, bigger offices, bigger staffs, bigger responsibilities and bigger expectations when the 110th Congress convenes in early January.
Dairy farmers take co-op to task
After years of private gripes and government investigations, 17 Southeast dairy farmers filed two federal class-action civil lawsuits in Tennessee July 5 charging the nation's milk giants with "conspiracy
