Lessons from 22 tons of education
Today's Southern breeze gently rustles the heavy-headed tulips outside my office window before sweeping through the apple tree to sprinkle a shower of blossom petals onto an emerald lawn.
Farm groups captivated by CAFTA
The Congressional battle to approve the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) began in earnest with the usual suspects mouthing the usual platitudes to the usual inside-the-Beltway audiences.
Don’t know much about ag econ?
Had I known my professional life would center on chronicling the takeover of global ag business by global ag business, I would have listened more closely to Professor Lyle P.
MCP: Value-added, little gained
Cotton ruling is blow to exports
You don't own any cattle, so the court-clouded Canadian beef import rule doesn't affect you, right?
Likewise, you don't make fructose, raise sugar beets or grow cotton so all that mumbo-jumbo about NAFTA, CAFTA, TRIPS and the WTO is better left to those smart trade-talkers in Washington, Brussels and Geneva.
Free trade won’t feed the world
The first hint of spring brings big iron and big irony to the winter-rested Illinois prairie.
Senate, judge kick USDA’s mad cow
The scene, often repeated these bitterly political days, was straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
On March 3, U.
State ag directors take a whack at CAFTA and White House
It was an embarrassing moment for the White House and its free trade acolytes.
There, hat-in-hand before the agriculture commissioners, secretaries and directors of each state and four U.
Grab attention: Show me the numbers
The trick in getting farmers to read farm magazines, a long-time editor of mine repeatedly admonished, is to put numbers in the headline, the lead and every paragraph thereafter.
Trillion-dollar debt shapes budget, but Washington can’t blot red ink
As the White House and Congress pout, parry and plot over the 2006 federal budget plan of President George W.