Agriculture needs better leaders
How will we -- farmers everywhere -- sustain our ability to feed any of us when there are more of us and less of everything else? Sheep, excellent or otherwise, ain't gonna get that job done. Leaders will.
EPA wants its millions returned
The Office of Inspector General at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recommended EPA seek to recover nearly $25.
Farm and Food File: Again with the crop insurance?
Suggestions on how to change the 2012 farm bill are popping up faster than jack-o'-lanterns. Like this gap-toothed hallmark of Halloween, however, most are hollow, scary and shed little light.
Cooking goose brings back memories
For the first year in five, the lovely Catherine and I will not be driving a sack of sweet potatoes, a cooler with a...
Average Crop Revenue Election awaits
On Jan. 8, 2008, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs predicted crude oil prices would top $200 a barrel by summer, then slip lower...
It’s time to restock the national pantry
More than most months, September delivers farmers key numbers - yield per acre, weaning weight, price per pound or bushel - they will live with for the coming months.
My summer as a kitchen migrant
Sometime in the early summer of 1965 I migrated from my mother's hot kitchen and the family's enormous garden to our farm's sweltering hayfields and crowded milking parlor.
New farm bill was a shameful process
The farm bill may be settled, but the process was ugly.
Big food dishes out more baloney
Does Sysco have too big of a market influence?
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?
