What voters want in farm policy
Baseball has its winter hot-stove league when teams and players wheel and deal in hopes of improving their World Series chances.
D.C. sausage grinder running wild
In its rush to blow out of steamy Washington D.C. for a month of cooler temperatures and cooler tempers, Congress ran the legislative meat grinder hard in the final days of July to crank out enough fat-laden sausage to sate even the hungriest special interest.
Uncle Honey: dangerous, but sweet
The last week of July and first week of August were always the longest and hottest weeks of the year on the southern Illinois' farm of my youth.
Dairy farmers mooch it up in Maine
Most freelance writers are born moochers.
With no corporate travel budget behind them and a flood-or-dust income stream in front of them, the art of mooching - traveling, dining, drinking and vacationing on other peoples' tabs - quickly becomes a way of life.
Eminent domain decision: no shock, and qualified, if you follow history
To hear the major newspapers and farm groups tell it, the world of private property rights collapsed June 23.
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.
Farm and Food File: Mad over mad cow disease testing
Once, while researching the amount of grain the USDA's Commodity Credit Corp. had in storage, I hit the brick-solid bureaucratic wall of silence.
Why may ethanol be imported?
The harder anyone scratches the Central American Free Trade Agreement pushed by the White House, the worse the smell in American agriculture gets.
Made in America? Yeah, right
After a sip of (Brazilian) orange juice and a nibble of bacon (from a market hog farrowed in Canada), U.
Talking the truth about trade
You know you're far off the reality map when the American Farm Bureau's former president, Iowan Dean Kleckner, publicly praises the Humane Society of the United States for its support of Central American Free Trade Agreement.
