Want reform? Audit, please
Secretary of Ag Tom Vilsack threatened to impose a second beef checkoff that would double the annual, non-refundable collections of the now-$80 million federal program if members of his reform effort didn't come to an agreement.
$1.2 billion can buy ‘access’ to Congress, but not much else
What did individuals and political action committees believe they were buying when they contributed $755.1 million this election cycle to Republican and Democratic candidates for the U.S. House and $415.2 million to Republican and Democratic candidates to the U.S. Senate?
Who knows … where big money goes?
If only we knew ... where the money went.
Slouching toward Election Day
There are facts on which the world operates and there are facts on which politics operate. Spoiler alert: The two are not the same.
Farm Bureau and big ag misrepresenting EPA water rule
The stark differences between what EPA proposed and what farm and ranch groups believe the proposals mean.
A change in the wind is coming
As fall approaches, the signs of the season are becoming more clear.
Call farming like it is: slaughtering, drugs, herbicides and manure
Columnist says farmers need to stop sugarcoating what they do.
Twenty years later, the GMO fight goes on
Consumer concerns over GMOs are not going away.
Heavyweight India defies WTO deal
800 million people can't be wrong, right?
Yup, fact is stranger than fiction
Herman Melville was a pretty good fiction writer, but his 1851 whale of a tale -- something about a big fish and a peg-legged man named Ahab -- was, in fact, based on the true story of the American whaling ship Essex that, in 1820, was attacked and sunk by a huge whale in the South Pacific.
