Farm and Food File

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there now are federal commodity checkoffs for beef, blueberries, Christmas trees, cotton, dairy products, eggs, fluid milk, Hass avocados, “Honey Packers and Importers,” lamb, mango, mushrooms, paper and paper-based packaging, peanuts, popcorn, pork, potatoes, processed raspberries, softwood lumber, sorghum, soybeans and watermelons.

Alan Guebert digs into the widely held belief that if you want to get ahead in farm group politics, you can't be political.

Alan Guebert explains why no amount of net-this or net-that has a snowball’s chance in our ever-hotter world of ever working.

January and cold weather has a slowing effect on us all.

Alan Guebert gives his view on Perdue’s decision to “slow down” implementation of the nutritional school lunch standards promoted by Michelle Obama.

How are politics affecting agriculture and what lies ahead? Alan Guebert analyzes what he calls "the current state of the American farm and food union."

Almost before her first cup of government coffee cooled, Christine Varney, the antitrust chief at the U.S. Department of Justice since April 20, tossed...

Call it coincidence, serendipity, interstellar planetary alignment, whatever, but two events Oct. 13 proved again economics is the most refreshingly maddening subject (I cannot...

Columnist says farmers need to stop sugarcoating what they do.

Just before this weekly effort began 21 years ago this month, its two founders, the lovely Catherine and me, compiled a list of nearly...