Hey, rural America, do your civic duty. Or not.
Alan Guebert digs into the USMCA trade deal and takes a closer look at 2019 ag exports and the still-in-place tariffs that are clipping U.S. exports.
USDA: Defenders of the corrupt
During Australia's inquiry of the $215 million in kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime, documents have been made public that show American-based Australian diplomats working hand-in glove with U.
Dairy farmers take co-op to task
After years of private gripes and government investigations, 17 Southeast dairy farmers filed two federal class-action civil lawsuits in Tennessee July 5 charging the nation's milk giants with "conspiracy
The state of our farm and food union
How are politics affecting agriculture and what lies ahead? Alan Guebert analyzes what he calls "the current state of the American farm and food union."
How does Kansas City sound?
Alan Guebert believes moving two USDA agencies to Kansas City will cripple data collection, handcuff policymakers and gut both agencies for years to come.
The growing disconnect between hard numbers and soft policy
Alan Guebert discusses the recently released 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture and how the numbers show a lack of change for small and medium-sized farms.
Matter doesn’t always matter
A month ago, Fred Kirschenmann, distinguished fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, preached to the preachers of the Northern Plains Conference of the United Church of Christ in Bismarck.
The truth about rock-and-roll
On the sunny, first Sunday of October, Willie Nelson, 76; Neil Young, 63; John Mellencamp, three days shy of 58, and Dave Matthews, 42,...
NCBA realizes reorganization misstep
That didn't take long.Before most of the newspapers carrying last week's installment of this summer's most popular soap opera, "The Beef Checkoff Chronicles," could...
‘… the least of these my brothers…’
As the Sunday, Nov. 20 network news' yakkers were working hard to fix the blame for the Super Committee's failed attempts to fix last summer's failed attempts to fix Congress's failed attempts to fix the federal budget, 25 or so Americans gathered in a central Illinois church to hear their pastor explain that day's Gospel, Matthew 25: 31-46.
