Truth and the slime situation stinks
It's hard to mix today's politics with today's food and not get slime, slimed or both.
Bigger and bigger and …
It was, literally, a sight for sore eyes. Two years ago March 12, trumpets blasted in Ankeny, Iowa, as America's new gladiators for agricultural...
Agriculture needs better leaders
How will we -- farmers everywhere -- sustain our ability to feed any of us when there are more of us and less of everything else? Sheep, excellent or otherwise, ain't gonna get that job done. Leaders will.
It should be easy: English for the eater
Ranchers have a well-earned reputation for speaking plain English plainly. Translation As such, cowboys instantly translate phrases like “government revenue enhancements” and “now pursuing...
Watch the traffic, not the lights
A good friend recently reminded me of a story Jackie "Moms" Mabley liked to tell about how easily people are misled into trusting the...
Shouldn’t be a mystery to farm folks: The customer is always right
UEP is working with the Humane Society of the U.S. to codify federal regulations it knows its customers know they want for its chickens.
What is the grain market telling us?
As corn and soybeans cash prices flutter around their post-harvest highs, a farmer telephones with a question: How do February's stronger prices compare to...
Snowy winter days sure have changed
A dash of sugar-like snow is almost lost in the brown grass and gray sky out my back door. Winter's dullness seems to have...
MF Global was not running on vapor
The lead story on the front page of the Jan. 30 Wall Street Journal reported "that a 'significant amount'" of an estimated $1.2 billion in customer money that disappeared when investment bank MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed "could have 'vaporized' as a result of chaotic trading ... the week before the company's Oct. 31 bankruptcy filing."
Crude oil and crude politics
Like the weather, everyone complains about how slanderous politics has become but no one ever does anything about it.
