English for the English speaker
As a trained professional in most things English (the language, not the nation), and with the Labor Day kick-off to the election season just...
Dairy’s dive into the unknown
It’s one of American agriculture’s best truisms: Only six people in the world understand U.S. dairy policy and none of the six milks cows.
It’s...
The film The Informant is not funny
The two, almost-funny moments in The Informant!, Hollywood's comedic treatment of the deadly serious, 1995 price fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland, failed to...
Surprise! The history of the speaker of the house repeats itself
The recent history of the third most powerful constitutional office in the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is so checkered that you have to seriously question the background of anyone who seeks it.
A knucklehead trade strategy
Lawyers are fond of noting there are only three courtroom strategies to pursue in any legal case. First, if the facts favor your client, argue the facts.
Partisanship, piffle and prattle
Alan Guebert offers insight on how groups fund research to confuse, mislead and redirect farmers, ranchers and naive policymakers away from solutions.
Groundhog Day again and again
Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror, Christmas in the windshield and, given the glacial pace of key policy decisions awaiting resolution in Washington, D.C., it’s just another Groundhog Day out here in rural America.
A golden goose for chicken feed
Every week for 19 years this 170 square-foot, two-dog, one-person office has declared its complete devotion to numbers. For example, just last week we...
June was cultivator, not dairy, month
Yes, of course, June is Dairy Month.And National Ice Tea Month, National Candy Month, National Soul Food Month, National Smile Month and National Turkey...
“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...
