Sliced or diced, baloney is baloney
Rupert Murdoch came before a House of Commons committee investigating the misdeeds of his company’s British newspapers with his heart on his sleeve. He...
Livestock needs tomorrow’s solutions
Two fact-laden summer reports on animal agriculture nearly mirror each other on the woe faced by many American dairy, cattle and hog producers.
A life of simple living and giving
(Author's note: The following column was first published the week of Christmas 1994. Now, by tradition, it returns.
Some days are meant to last forever
Someone -- my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone -- told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a...
Reporter moves to different ‘beat’
Hemingway went to Paris to discover, he once explained, if "I could write two good sentences."
While there, however, Papa wrote two good books, The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms.
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.
It’s here: September’s colorful call
The glowing orange tops of two nearby maples are the first clear announcement that change, despite the day's drilling heat and shirt-soaking humidity, is coming.
Too many cooks in farm bill kitchen
If urban sprawl consumes two acres of America's finite farmland every minute, should Congress, through the 2007 farm bill, address farmland protection? If one out of three Americans is either overweight or obese, should the $57 billion the U.
Forecast for March: Very, very hot
After hiring into the market newsletter biz 30 years ago, my new bosses informed me that I'd sink or swim on how well I...
Breaking bad ag habits this year
From the high, clear-view perch of the new year, certain facts and events of 2006 are already visible.
