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USDA’s ‘mad cow’ circus act
The only thing worse than the USDA's timing in the announcement of new rules to permit Canadian live cattle and cow beef imports into the U.
Hmm, how about a tasty catburger?
While the nation's farmers leap into spring planting, this office is reluctantly digging through the winter drifts of stories gone undone.
A ‘gasified windbag’ starts a new year
Alan Guerbert discusses 2012 and readers' reactions to his column.
Einstein influences federal budget
While Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity nearly a century ago, today's Congress and White House have perfected its application.
‘Twas the bailout before Christmas
Before ya'll go gettin' cheery-cheeked and weepy-eyed for Christmas, Old Scrooge here has some sour facts that will be waitin' for you on the...
He is farm policy’s pain in the neck
If you're a conventional farm policy person - as most farm leaders and members of Congress are - Daryll Ray is becoming your biggest pain in the neck.
World Trade Organization locked in dispute between the big and the little
The biggest non-news news of the yet-young summer arrived July 1 when the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization talks melted into a muddy puddle of recriminations as the trade yakkers in Geneva failed to even begin their "last ditch" effort to save the troubled talks.
It’s time to put exports 6 feet under
While most farmers and ranchers spent February focused on rising futures and cash grain prices, the U.
Known by the company they keep
If it’s even partly true that you’re known by the company you keep, then the farmer-loved ethanol business got a lot less lovable Feb....