Looks like it, but it’s not 2009
While 2021 is not 2009, it's easy to see how some Americans — and, in fact, many farmers and ranchers — might get confused.
U.S. ag trade offer to be short-lived
After a few tough months at home - falling poll numbers, staying at Rancho del Lazio while New Orleans flooded, Harriet "Who?" Miers - the Bush Administration sought to get its mojo working again by dropping an agricultural trade bomb in Geneva Oct.
Who killed the trade talks at Doha?
Unlike Mark Twain's quip upon reading his obituary, my early July "RIP Doha" column was neither premature nor exaggerated.
And this little piggy squealed …
Roosters crow, cows moo and pigs squeal.To be more precise, proud roosters crow, contented cows moo and, contrary to popular folklore, scared pigs —...
The TPP: Free trade’s cheap talk
Most U.S. farm and commodity groups aren't clear on the exact elements of the just agreed-upon Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Farm and Food File: Coincidence?
Bloggers might do coincidence; journalists don't. We do irony, maybe even allegory. Sometimes we stray into ennui and pathos. Coincidence, however, features facts that aren't tied as tightly together as we like. My Oxford Desk Dictionary agrees.
China plays the long game
Alan Guebert shares his concerns over the most recent version of the U.S.-China trade deal and the bigger picture regarding Chinese trade.
Let there be light in continuing battle over pork checkoffs
Little wonder, then, why Big Meat hates the Humane Society; it's shining lights into corners that most in U.S. agriculture, often even USDA, want kept dark.
Grab attention: Show me the numbers
The trick in getting farmers to read farm magazines, a long-time editor of mine repeatedly admonished, is to put numbers in the headline, the lead and every paragraph thereafter.
Call farming like it is: slaughtering, drugs, herbicides and manure
Columnist says farmers need to stop sugarcoating what they do.
