Two ways to write a letter
There are ways to write a letter and then there are ways to write a letter. One way includes pleasantries, ideas, even artful persuasion....
Living a good life at ‘home’
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."
Environmental cancer risks are huge
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."
USDA needs to find answers to carbon sequestration questions
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.
US Capitol invasion hits hard
Alan Guebert shares his thoughts on the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, reflecting on the actions of those involved.
“A consistently dour columnist…”
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...
State ag directors take a whack at CAFTA and White House
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.
What to look for in an ag secretary
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.
Don’t be a chicken — literally
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.
Farm and Food File: Coincidence?
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.