You’re right, I’m wrong… Next!
Readers respond to Alan Guebert's columns from second half of 2014.
Crop insurance: Flawed and fixable
Federally subsidized crop insurance is the elephant in the Farm Bill pantry and anyone who had any role in pushing the law through the zoo called Congress knows it.
Groundhog Day again and again
Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror, Christmas in the windshield and, given the glacial pace of key policy decisions awaiting resolution in Washington, D.C., it’s just another Groundhog Day out here in rural America.
On immigration, Congress needs to do what we elected them to do: Lead
If you ran your farm or ranch like the White House and Congress run the federal government, your corn would never get planted and your cows would be long gone.
Quantitative spinning: It’s in the numbers
Against all odds, economics, the dismal science, has become even more dismal.
‘Coincidences’ of the November election
Things that just hapend to — well — happen!
Bring on the winter season
Fall’s first frost — usually a mid-October event in my adopted central Illinois — waited until the last possible monthly moment — deep into Halloween night — to finally show winter’s white face.
Endless politics of GMOs in the USA
It’s tough being a genetically modified organism in election season because no election passes without someone or some state slamming you for being, well, you.
Already unimpressed with farm bill
Plenty to criticize in the new farm bill.
Confused? No, not at all. (I think)
All right, listen up! We’ve got a lot to sort out here and little time to do it.
