The days of buses, bullies and books
By mid-September, most children west of the Ohio have a month of the new school year already on the books.That means some young scholar...
Remember, people vote, cattle don’t
During a sudsy session in a college pub nearly 40 years ago, a friend wryly observed that every person lacks one word in what...
Keep an eye on $40 billion potash pie
American farmers hardly noticed when, in mid-August, news broke that Australian-based BHP Billiton was willing to pay nearly $40 billion for the world's largest...
Ohio livestock growers caged by farm groups
What was to be a clever, voter-sanctioned effort to fence out the animals-are-people-crowd in Ohio last year is, depending on your perspective, either a...
Lack of internal controls could present problems for cattle industry
You know it’s gonna’ be a bad day when you open your e-mail and see that day’s New York Times’ sports your picture pleading...
It’s weaning time for packers
A lot of bellowing and bawling was heard from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other in the late July heat of Washington,...
Economists in the house? Run!
Don't' look now, but Dr. Econ -- that master of the malaprop, that tangled tiller of economic turnips, the clearest, coldest-eyed killer of the...
New game, new rules in meat markets
Watching Big Pork and Big Beef respond to proposed USDA rules to “clarify conduct that violates the P&S Act” is like watching Wall...
Golly, tell me how you really feel: Readers respond to previous columns
Reader letters, telephone calls and e-mails arrive at this office every day, and every six months or so some see print here because, as...
NCBA realizes reorganization misstep
That didn't take long.Before most of the newspapers carrying last week's installment of this summer's most popular soap opera, "The Beef Checkoff Chronicles," could...
