Ohio livestock growers caged by farm groups
What was to be a clever, voter-sanctioned effort to fence out the animals-are-people-crowd in Ohio last year is, depending on your perspective, either a...
Lack of internal controls could present problems for cattle industry
You know it’s gonna’ be a bad day when you open your e-mail and see that day’s New York Times’ sports your picture pleading...
It’s weaning time for packers
A lot of bellowing and bawling was heard from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other in the late July heat of Washington,...
Economists in the house? Run!
Don't' look now, but Dr. Econ -- that master of the malaprop, that tangled tiller of economic turnips, the clearest, coldest-eyed killer of the...
New game, new rules in meat markets
Watching Big Pork and Big Beef respond to proposed USDA rules to “clarify conduct that violates the P&S Act” is like watching Wall...
Golly, tell me how you really feel: Readers respond to previous columns
Reader letters, telephone calls and e-mails arrive at this office every day, and every six months or so some see print here because, as...
NCBA realizes reorganization misstep
That didn't take long.Before most of the newspapers carrying last week's installment of this summer's most popular soap opera, "The Beef Checkoff Chronicles," could...
Beef checkoff to NCBA: Drop dead
In a toughly worded statement June 22, the executive committee of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, the group created by Congress to collect and oversee...
A lot to like about Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
It's just a guess but I'd bet Blanche Lincoln, chair of the Senate's Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, would be a tough poker player.The...
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...
