‘Free markets’ really aren’t free
If there’s no such thing as a free lunch — and there isn’t: even the United States Department of Agriculture’s “free” National School Lunch...
Ireland’s farms, food and future
Since Alan Guebert's last visit in 2008, Dublin seems to have gone global.
Lame ducks holding up the farm bill
On the face of it, few things carry a more apt name than today's "lame duck" Congress. Indeed, how lame is it that after...
China plays the long game
Alan Guebert shares his concerns over the most recent version of the U.S.-China trade deal and the bigger picture regarding Chinese trade.
Readers say the darnedest things
Alan Guebert shares some recent feedback he's received from his readers.
Mother Nature and Uncle Sam wreak havoc on planting season
Both Mother Nature and Uncle Sam have been uncooperative throughout the 2019 planting season, making already difficult year into an even bigger mess.
Outside the fence one time too many
For the third time in less than a year, a jury in Denver failed to convict poultry company executives of federal charges of conspiracy to fix prices.
Creaming the co-op: There appears to be no winners in the milk battle
Sometimes it takes a newspaper’s ink-stained thumb to right the scale of justice, and no newspaper has a bigger, inkier thumb than the New...
The ‘level playing field’ of trade
Some phrases just make the heart flutter. “Call the vet,” was one that always tripped my father’s ticker. “Level the playing field of trade,”...
The facts, numbers jumble: Go figure
Columnist Alan Guebert speculatees on the mystery of how identical facts and figures often lead people to draw different conclusions.
