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...
Suppose you support reform
Suppose the House Ag Committee asks you to come to Washington to offer your ideas on how to improve the Farm Bill for its...
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."
Atrazine review: Nothing to hide
Forty-five years may have dimmed a frame or two of memory but I can still see my father emptying small bags of flour-like powder...
I saw it in the newspaper
Asked once for the source of his best material, American humorist Will Rogers quickly replied that “Everything I know I get from the newspaper.”...
