Once again, here come the trolls
A day does not pass without some Big Ag chieftain or Capitol Hill yakker parting their perpetually pursed lips to unleash total nonsense on...
2015 is dirt’s big year to shine
This year, center your resolutions around soil health.
Senate, judge kick USDA’s mad cow
The scene, often repeated these bitterly political days, was straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
On March 3, U.
U.S. ag trade offer to be short-lived
After a few tough months at home - falling poll numbers, staying at Rancho del Lazio while New Orleans flooded, Harriet "Who?" Miers - the Bush Administration sought to get its mojo working again by dropping an agricultural trade bomb in Geneva Oct.
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.
Balancing ‘free trade’ with free facts
During a long-ago interview, the great grandson of a Kansas homesteader noted that only a handful of the 40 or so families who staked out farms with his family a century before remained after three years of disease, drought and death.
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,...
Not knowing beans about seed corn
Love him or hate him, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore has his self-described "America's biggest slacker" act down pat.
Everyone’s a critic, but be original
Just after I completed the previous reader-mail column in late December, a Christmas card, carrying a festive stamp, arrived.
