Meadowbrook Farms collapses
A sudden surge of spring-like warmth put a hint of green in my backyard just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Whether the lovely...
Call farming like it is: slaughtering, drugs, herbicides and manure
Columnist says farmers need to stop sugarcoating what they do.
Bad mojo starts 2018
Much of last year's bad mojo — the crazy weather, its bitter politics, policy gridlock — also crossed December's ice bridge into the new year.
Goodbye to 2021’s high profits; hello to 2022’s high costs
Alan Guebert explains why this year's wild and crazy ride in the grain markets has set the stage for a more normal 2022 in terms of grain prices.
40 billion green reasons to go green
Alan Guebert breaks down the $40 billion in the proposed budget reconciliation bill that's earmarked for USDA conservation and climate change projects.
Remembering hand-me-down season
Alan Guebert recalls the pecking order in the hand-me-down cycle of his youth.
No one is laughing anymore
Alan Guebert ponders the need for a nationally coordinated food policy — both in the past and present times.
What to look for in an ag secretary
Alan Guebert ponders how challenging it is to find one person with the combined skills needed to fill the about to open job of the secretary of agriculture.
The company you keep says it all
In the long, expensive battle fought by U.S. farmers to make corn-based ethanol the premier alternative fuel in America, few Washington influence peddlers fought...
Betting against climate change
According to 2013 data compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, you and I owe our very existence to water. After all, 92 percent...
