Obamacare: Frightening premiums for some
Editor:
When I consider Obamacare’s initial blundering activity I picture a plane with flat tires trying to pick up speed for takeoff. And why am...
Cheese diplomacy and desserts
Although I'm sure it's been the source of family feuds, nothing brings people together like food. Cheese diplomacy and other dairy news tidbits.
We have to learn to work for peace
Editor:
Thank you Farm and Dairy for printing the “When I was in Vietnam I was no hero” guest commentary (Nov. 14, 2013). On Saturday...
Write Lois Alt a thank-you note
Court rules W.Va. poultry farm is exempt from the NPDES permit requirement of the Clean Water Act. And that's good news for all livestock farmers.
Is beef checkoff working in your interest?
As an appointee to the 106-member Cattlemen’s Beef Board, I often wonder if we are spending your beef checkoff dollars in the best interest of beef promotion.
Food Dialogues spectators as feisty a rivalry as OSU-Michigan (maybe)
Food is now prime-time. That's right, food fanatics around the country have turned food into fodder for water cooler, as well as kitchen table, conversations.
Animal rights vandals hit butter cow at Iowa State Fair
Vandals from the Iowans for Animal Liberation dowsed the Iowa State Fair’s butter cow with red paint symbolizing blood, and wrote “Freedom for All” on the glass display window.
Crowell on video junkies, ag research and county fairs
Congressional appropriations to R&D of the National Institutes of Health totaled nearly $31 billion in fiscal year 2012. Ag research got a paltry $277 million.
Precautionary principle: By removing a risk, are we limiting finding solutions to the problem?
Editor Susan Crowell on the precautionary principle: Public perception of risk can certainly be different than a scientific assessment of risk, but I’m not sure my perhaps-ignorant perception should hamper scientific inquiry.
Commentary by Susan Crowell: What farm bill history do we want to repeat?
Editor Susan Crowell wonders if we've learned anything from past farm bill wrangling.
