Meat that actually looks like meat
During a pork roast dinner with my parents on the farm 15 or so years ago, my father issued one of only two edicts I recall him ever uttering.
Rural Development isn’t broken…yet
Sonny Perdue says give him a year to fix Rural Development programs. Fix what? The much needed, heavily used programs aren’t broken. Yet.
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.
Making pork chops flow uphill
Alan Guebert digs into two recent reports that defend the market power gained by U.S. meatpackers in the last 30 years.
USDA: Defenders of the corrupt
During Australia's inquiry of the $215 million in kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime, documents have been made public that show American-based Australian diplomats working hand-in glove with U.
Elections do matter to everyone
Whoever said elections don't matter was either a royalist or a royal idiot. Of course elections matter. For proof, ask Robin Hayes, Marilyn Musgrave,...
Fix rural broadband’s leaky, creaky ‘net
Moving just six miles from a small central Illinois farm town to an even smaller, rural enclave in 2005 took the lovely Catherine and me from a drafty, big house on a leafy, wide street to a tighter, smaller house in a leafy, wide woods. Fabulous.
How does Kansas City sound?
Alan Guebert believes moving two USDA agencies to Kansas City will cripple data collection, handcuff policymakers and gut both agencies for years to come.
First steps in ag climate fight should be honesty and courage
Any immediate, measurable impact farmers and ranchers might have on climate change will be tied to “reducing fossil fuel combustion and emissions” today.
Climate change delay is climate change denial
Alan Guebert digs into the attitudes towards climate change in Washington.
