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...
The father of the Green Revolution
If pushed to guess, I suspect that few of the lengthy, laudatory obituaries published the week after his Sept. 12 death would have pleased...
Accumulated numbers we love
As many Eastern Cornbelt farmers nervously estimate just how many frost-free days (weeks?) they'll yet need to bin an almost certain to-be-late harvest, it's...
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...
The company you keep says it all
In the long, expensive battle fought by U.S. farmers to make corn-based ethanol the premier alternative fuel in America, few Washington influence peddlers fought...
The GIPSA watchdog better bite
Who is J. Dudley Butler and why are meatpackers and their allies saying nasty things about the courtly, 61-year-old from Yazoo County, Miss.? The...
Uncle Honey was all thumbs
A morning thunderstorm ripped through my rural farmette recently and in its wake I found a front yard peppered with green walnuts, a sky...
Cap and trade: Show me the money
One of the basic rules of my incredibly successful one-dog, two-ink pen operation is that if the government wants to give some of my...
Farm news that happened while you weren’t watching …
With the summer already two-thirds over and the dog days of August about to seep in, I'll bet you didn't notice that... About the...
Dairymen crying over spilled milk prices
Maybe this is what Willie and Waylon were thinking when they warned American “mommas” to not let their “babies to grow up to be...
