While Congress is on recess, there is much we can still learn
Congress left a lot undone, before going on summer recess.
Farm Credit salaries, big loans should lead to big questions
Lenders will continue to grow, merge and make whale-sized loans unless the farm, ranch and rural owners of the Farm Credit System begin to question them.
Ethanol policy is not all politics
In the run-up to the Nov. 7 election, any candidate worth a baby-kissing pucker instantly, enthusiastically and repeatedly took the ethanol pledge.
Harvest rarely done by Thanksgiving
Despite Thanksgiving's late November arrival, neither we nor the neighbors of the southern Illinois farm of my youth were done with harvest by the harvest holiday.
Oh, the mail we get
Letters, telephone calls, and emails from Maryland to Montana arrived daily to comment and question, debate and deflate.
It’s going to be a long, hot summer…
Alan Guebert digs into recent the recent actions of President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
The wisdom of hard work on the farm: ‘It won’t kill you’
It is the universal German Lutheran explanation for all the unnecessary sweat generated by farm folks since the Garden of Eden, "Besides, it doesn't kill us."
Crop insurance: ‘Just insane’
Neither the outcome of the federal election nor the fast-approaching budget "fiscal cliff" bothered any of the 250 gawkers and bidders at a 1,170-acre...
The land of non-action actions
Now, courtesy of Congress, our non-legislating legislature, we might soon be buying non-label labeled food.
Not to worry about winter baggage
Spring finally found the legs to arrive in central Illinois nearly a month after the calendar alerted us to be on the lookout for...
