Lack of internal controls could present problems for cattle industry
You know it’s gonna’ be a bad day when you open your e-mail and see that day’s New York Times’ sports your picture pleading...
Bigger and bigger and …
It was, literally, a sight for sore eyes. Two years ago March 12, trumpets blasted in Ankeny, Iowa, as America's new gladiators for agricultural...
Soybeans’ big players looking to a bruising year ahead
The biggest players in the global soybean market — the United States, Brazil, and China — are positioning themselves for a big 2023/24 marketing year.
Drive change before it drives you
Change is what farmers and ranchers do. We also know that it's better to drive change before change drives us, according to Alan Guebert.
Who will be big meat’s next fat hog?
Two of the world’s biggest meatpackers, Tyson Foods and JBS SA, are in a bare-knuckled, checkbook throw-down over who will own Hillshire Brands, the...
Farm and Food File: How did this happen? Pogo politics
TV talkers and radio ranters briefly bloviated last week on the world's population topping 7 billion. While 7 billion is a big number it isn't the biggest part of the population story.
U.S. energy policy never been decent
Of all the lessons beaten into America by crashing Katrina, one of the biggest is that the nation's energy policy, past as well as present, is an absolute scandal.
‘Bloated’ farm bill on shaky ground
Since 1981, when I picked up my first pen, paper and paycheck as a journalist, six farm bills have come and gone. With them...
‘You’re wrong’ is the wrong message
Individual companies in the food industry follow the market. That's the way the market works. What doesn't work is telling your customer they're wrong.
Groundhog Day again and again
Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror, Christmas in the windshield and, given the glacial pace of key policy decisions awaiting resolution in Washington, D.C., it’s just another Groundhog Day out here in rural America.
