Corporations have rights, so why not let Lake Erie have the same?
Alan Guebert shares his thoughts on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights and the arguments surrounding it.
‘Chinese century’ may be a decade
Alan Guebert ponders the United States' relationship with China and China's role on the world stage.
The fact and fiction of fast food
America's food industry, like the nation's church leaders, spent much of May wringing its hands over, by all accounts, pieces of poorly written, poorly acted fiction.
The great acreage race of 2007 is on
As the roaring combine sawed through 30 feet of soybeans at a fast-walk pace last October, a farming friend, through the convenience of his cell phone, sold 160 acres of still-standing corn for a couple or three nickels over $3 per bushel upon harvest.
‘Bloated’ farm bill on shaky ground
Since 1981, when I picked up my first pen, paper and paycheck as a journalist, six farm bills have come and gone. With them...
Remember me? Of course I do, Orlie
Longtime readers may recall a Thanksgiving column years ago that featured a dinner entree provided by Orlie, the gainfully unemployed younger brother of our...
Climate change or weather extreme?
The USDA would like some staff members to refer to "climate change" as "weather extremes" and "climate change adaption" as "resilience to weather extremes."
The sustainable solution to climate change
Alan Guebert considers the findings of a recently published paper that suggests renewable energy sources may not be the answer to reversing climate change.
America’s love/hate relationship with our biggest trading partner
Alan Guebert discusses the current economic woes of China and how this may play a part in U.S. and China relations for 2024.
Technology wave started years ago
About the time I broke the cotton shackles of my mother's apron strings for the glorious freedom of my father's farm fields, a technology wave hit the southern Illinois farm of my youth.
