The land of non-action actions
Now, courtesy of Congress, our non-legislating legislature, we might soon be buying non-label labeled food.
UK farmers face uncertainty
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will remain the key farm income scheme in the UK, even after the Brexit vote.
Living like a good neighbor
It’s hard to think of summer without thinking of the many neighbors who shared the southern Illinois heat, humidity and mosquitoes on the dairy farm of my youth.
Brexit: ‘Taking farmers for fools’
Caught in the middle of Britain's possible exit from the European Union are UK farmers.
Living a good life at ‘home’
Writer and journalist Gene Logsdon was the "Contrary Farmer," an Ohio-based "cottage farmer" with 32 acres of trees, garden, a rotating collection of livestock, a patch of corn, and "about 593,455,780 weeds."
Putting the ‘con’ in econometric
While American farmers and ranchers were eyeball-deep in spring planting and first-cutting hay, their commodity groups and federal government were knee-deep in narrowly-focused studies.
Chemical giants putting on quite the dance act
Chemical companies are making a lot of noise as they consider mergers.
Trade deals going nowhere
As the politics of this election year heat up, the chances of Congress debating — let alone passing — either of the White House’s marque trade deals continue to melt away.
We should talk, we need answers
Where will CRISPR take us? Answers to this question and others shouldn't solely come from government regulators like USDA, according to columnist Alan Guebert.
Trying to silence checkoff foes
Big Ag’s control of commodity checkoffs reached new heights April 19 when the House Appropriations Committee approved the USDA's $21.3 billion 2017 budget.
