Tuesday, February 18, 2025

There are ways to write a letter and then there are ways to write a letter. One way includes pleasantries, ideas, even artful persuasion....
tractor and field

Writer and journalist Gene Logsdon was the "Contrary Farmer," an Ohio-based "cottage farmer" with 32 acres of trees, garden, a rotating collection of livestock, a patch of corn, and "about 593,455,780 weeds."

No matter what your philosophy or location or whatever, we should all "strongly support environmental cancer research and measures that will reduce or remove from the environment toxins that are known or suspected carcinogens or endocrine-disrupting chemicals."
rye

Farm-directed carbon storage has been a tough sell because of two big unknowns — does it cost or does it pay and is carbon sequestration even possible.
Capitol dome, Washington D.C., Farm and Dairy file photo

Alan Guebert shares his thoughts on the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, reflecting on the actions of those involved.

Come on, you don't want to end this year reading what an aging aggie like me thinks the "Best Stories of 2009" are. Easy...

It was an embarrassing moment for the White House and its free trade acolytes. There, hat-in-hand before the agriculture commissioners, secretaries and directors of each state and four U.
Iowa Farm

Alan Guebert ponders how challenging it is to find one person with the combined skills needed to fill the about to open job of the secretary of agriculture.
chickens

Since January, 38 million chickens have died in the U.S. either because of HPAI outbreaks or the culling of flocks where it was found.

Bloggers might do coincidence; journalists don't. We do irony, maybe even allegory. Sometimes we stray into ennui and pathos. Coincidence, however, features facts that aren't tied as tightly together as we like. My Oxford Desk Dictionary agrees.