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
The growing disconnect between hard numbers and soft policy
Alan Guebert discusses the recently released 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture and how the numbers show a lack of change for small and medium-sized farms.
Matter doesn’t always matter
A month ago, Fred Kirschenmann, distinguished fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, preached to the preachers of the Northern Plains Conference of the United Church of Christ in Bismarck.
Memories of the auctioneer’s song
In the end, no amount of “stuff” could ever equal Alan Guebert's father's good health, abiding friends, deep faith and 89 years to enjoy it all.
Always start with what you know
Alan Guebert predicts 2019's challenges were just a warm-up act for what appears to be an even more challenging 2020.
Global meatpackers filet US taxpayers again and again
JBS USA spent the last six months getting out of trouble with customers and the U.S. government. Alan Guebert weighs in on the latest meat-packing scandal.
Market forecast for summer: Cloudy with a chance of hardheadedness
Growing recession fears and already-high futures prices quickly pushed aside the USDA acreage report's and a grain stocks report's bullish news.
Supreme confusion over checkoff
After the U.S. Supreme Court surprised both sides of the beef checkoff court fight May 23 by declaring the $80-million-per-year mandatory tax constitutional, opponents and proponents alike offered a dizzying display of spin.
Cutting a fat hog on the taxpayers’ tab
The year isn't five months old and hog farmers already have had a year to forget: a sick global economy sickening pork demand, costlier...
Nature’s calling, is anyone listening?
Overall, USDA estimates, 45 million turkeys, chickens, and ducks in 15 states have been euthanized in an effort to limit the spread of the contagious, deadly flu.
