Mergers killing healthy competition
When University of Wisconsin law professor Peter Carstensen read the U.S. Department of Justice May 4 press release announcing its blessing on pork giant Smithfield, Inc.
Meat that actually looks like meat
During a pork roast dinner with my parents on the farm 15 or so years ago, my father issued one of only two edicts I recall him ever uttering.
Origin labeling being resurrected
If you could save, say, $1,000 on the purchase of a new car or truck because it did not have a shatterproof windshield and side glass, would you cut the deal? Of course not; the safety of you and your family is priceless.
Fight is on for piece of conservation pie
Farm bill fights usually center on the legislation's commodity title, the section that explains who, when and how farmers can tap the federal treasury should crop prices fall.
Food safety laws are counterintuitive
In the upside down world of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's current leaders, sound science is what they say it is and food safety seems to be what is best for agribusiness.
North Korean trade deal is ‘lunacy’
Be it mere coincidence or clear symbolism, the delightfully early and deliciously warm spring enjoyed by farmers and ranchers came to a stone-cold halt just days after the U.
Spring welcomed at the Gueberts’
The signs and sounds of another Illinois spring are everywhere and each one sends me daydreaming to another time, another place.
Criminal activity but no criminals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.
Ethanol is more free trade Kool-Aid
Giddy. Everything ethanol touches seems to get giddy on either the grain alcohol's future or its fumes.
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.
