The aggies to Obama: No!
Of the many talents Americans -- and especially American politicians -- have acquired in the last 25 years, coupling fact with fiction to create...
Known by the company they keep
If it’s even partly true that you’re known by the company you keep, then the farmer-loved ethanol business got a lot less lovable Feb....
Pouts, preachers and persimmons
It's been eight long, commentary-filled months since readers who've dropped letters, e-mails and napalm on me have had their say. Sorry, but time screams...
Watchdog bites the hands that fed it
Despite over-promised and underpaid by millions of dollars, the 100 or so producer-members of Meadowbrook Farms Cooperative said little during a recent public meeting...
Let’s go on rural broadband
One the biggest drawbacks of living in rural America is the high cost and low quality of connectivity: antiquated dial-up Internet speeds, costly satellite...
Old guard still reigns at USDA, even under Obama
Although Barack Obama has been president but a few days we can already say with certainty -- unlike before his inauguration -- he cannot...
Where will ag spend Obama billions?
The new president wants Congress to approve upwards of $800 billion in cash and tax credits by mid-February to, hopefully, stem the worst economic...
Average Crop Revenue Election awaits
On Jan. 8, 2008, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs predicted crude oil prices would top $200 a barrel by summer, then slip lower...
A new secretary; another governor
If conventional leadership and bureaucratic competency had a face, it would look exactly like Thomas J. Vilsack: round as an apple pie, chin disappearing...
Is ‘sucker’ written on our foreheads?
It's the end of the year, but columnist Alan Guebert still has unanswered questions.
