Sleeping with the fishes
If mega-biz is to be believed, the new antitrust chief in the Obama Department of Justice, Christine A. Varney, is really a hurricane whose...
Credit crunch crunching markets
If recent conversations with elevator managers and farmers are even slightly predictive, it's gonna be a long, cold winter in corn and soybean country...
The sustainable solution to climate change
Alan Guebert considers the findings of a recently published paper that suggests renewable energy sources may not be the answer to reversing climate change.
Hemming and hawing avoids tougher action and “us”
The USDA talks around the issue of market concentration, Alan Guebert writes in his latest column.
Please tell me you remember, right??
If you thought the farm bill fight was bad, you’re gonna hate the coming battle over the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
Two things farm markets hate: Uncertainty and tariffs
Alan Guebert weighs in on President Donald Trump's recently-imposed tariffs and how they will affect tax payers.
It’s a long, hot summer already
Columnist Alan Guebert says political events suggest temperatures in farm country will be rising.
Doha? No really …
If you list the top 100 things President George W. Bush will complete before noon Jan. 20, the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round...
Costco, Walmart want ag control
Farm leaders in rural America are closely watching two recent moves into "Big Ag" by Costco and Walmart.
‘We’ can accomplish more than ‘they’
Alan Guebert ponders on the way rural America has become charged over the “theys” in today’s bitter election-year politics.
