Fight is on for piece of conservation pie
Farm bill fights usually center on the legislation's commodity title, the section that explains who, when and how farmers can tap the federal treasury should crop prices fall.
Food safety laws are counterintuitive
In the upside down world of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's current leaders, sound science is what they say it is and food safety seems to be what is best for agribusiness.
North Korean trade deal is ‘lunacy’
Be it mere coincidence or clear symbolism, the delightfully early and deliciously warm spring enjoyed by farmers and ranchers came to a stone-cold halt just days after the U.
Spring welcomed at the Gueberts’
The signs and sounds of another Illinois spring are everywhere and each one sends me daydreaming to another time, another place.
Criminal activity but no criminals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.
Ethanol is more free trade Kool-Aid
Giddy. Everything ethanol touches seems to get giddy on either the grain alcohol's future or its fumes.
It’s time to put exports 6 feet under
While most farmers and ranchers spent February focused on rising futures and cash grain prices, the U.
Planting report doesn’t have a clue
Regardless if March arrives with a lion's roar or a lamb's bleat, grain and livestock markets will spend each of its days sweating over the U.
Peterson gives us straight answers
Ag journalists were well-blessed last Election Day when, in the Dem's retaking of the U.S. House of Representative, Collin Peterson assumed the chairmanship of that chamber's Agriculture Committee.
Come on, let’s redo payment limits
In a surprisingly move, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns offered three reforms in his Jan. 31 farm bill proposal to fence rich farmers from the farm program payment trough.
