The facts, numbers jumble: Go figure
Columnist Alan Guebert speculatees on the mystery of how identical facts and figures often lead people to draw different conclusions.
Playing politics? Ain’t nuthin’ to it
Columnist Alan Guebert serves up a tongue-in-cheek letter offering to help steer the Bush campaign.
Dead cow walking: USDA questioned
Columnist Alan Guebert explains the reasons for more USDA mad cow testing.
The WTO tries to reinvent the wheel
Columnist Alan Guebert thinks WTO negotiators could find the way to their goals through policies as simple and as proven as the good old wheel.
The truthful answer is four
Columnist Alan Guebert always manages to cut through the murky lines we're fed every day by ag leaders and economists.
Jury agrees: Cattle markets rigged
Columnist Alan Guebert gives details on the recent Tyson Foods court ruling, called the most important event in U.S. livestock history since the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921.
Sound of silence speaks volumes
Columnist Alan Guebert comments on where American farmers now sit on free trade.
Wardrobe, and budget, dysfunction
White House competes with Justin Timberlake for biggest whopper of the year, says columnist Alan Guebert.
Trade becomes ag’s big issue in 2004
Columnist Alan Guebert believes at the 2003 rate, the U.S. trade deficit should reach Mars years before another American reaches the moon.