Santa, if you can’t bring a combine or a farm bill, how ’bout...
You, my friend, are one tough customer for Santa. I mean, like many, the Fat Man knows food, but he doesn't know farming.
As such,...
Lame ducks holding up the farm bill
On the face of it, few things carry a more apt name than today's "lame duck" Congress. Indeed, how lame is it that after...
Did Mississippi Farm Bureau railroad state director for opinions?
To hear Fred Stokes tell it, he got carried away "a mite" in a Kansas City news conference Aug. 10 with his explanation of...
Cooking goose brings back memories
For the first year in five, the lovely Catherine and I will not be driving a sack of sweet potatoes, a cooler with a...
Grandpa and dad knew balance while farming was vital
Life seems to bounce from one hard lesson to the next. For example, no sooner than someone tells you "It's not about the money,"...
Creaming the co-op: There appears to be no winners in the milk battle
Sometimes it takes a newspaper’s ink-stained thumb to right the scale of justice, and no newspaper has a bigger, inkier thumb than the New...
In California she says tomato; he says GMO delivery device
It’s pretty hard to be taken seriously in any debate if, geographically, you are located on the “Left Coast,” have elected a person known...
Global markets: High speed crazies
If it's a bad idea to play with matches, it's an even worse idea to play with a blowtorch in a fireworks factory. And...
Organic by another name: Science
In most public policy debates, everyone favors “science” until science begins to favor one side over the other. When that occurs, science, suddenly, isn’t...
Autumn’s splendor restores my soul
Somehow a notice went out a week ago to all the blue jays in Illinois that the acorns on (what I think is) a...
