What makes you an expert in ag?
Ah, blessed readers; they are heartwarming and hazardous, professional and profane, loving and loathing. Without them, I'm out of business; with them, I'm often hearing their business.
Cattle never judged me, so I never judged cattle
Alan Guebert recalls his motivation for joining the county 4-H dairy judging team, his first trip to McDonalds and how those things were seemingly linked.
Heavyweight India defies WTO deal
800 million people can't be wrong, right?
Costco, Walmart want ag control
Farm leaders in rural America are closely watching two recent moves into "Big Ag" by Costco and Walmart.
NAIS should be fixed or forgotten
Four days before the seventh and final "listening session" June 1 to gather producer comments on NAIS, the National Animal Identification System, U.S. Secretary...
Bill and Melinda Gates’ foothold on farmland
Alan Guebert digs into the motives behind Bill and Melinda Gates' foothold on farmland as they now own 242,000 acres of farmland worth over $690 million.
Just how expensive is food in the U.S.? And should it be?
Alan Guebert explains the politics behind the rising cost of food.
Rural America has enough problems — why should we create new ones?
Alan Guebert weighs in on how President Donald Trump's immigration policies could begin to affect agricultural labor forces.
How to stay warm at night in an old farm house
Alan Guebert recalls the heating systems and various tactics his family used to stay warm 60 years ago in the farm house of his youth.
New, long overdue efforts to reform federal commodity checkoffs
A long-overdue, new checkoff reform effort is underway in Congress. Alan Guebert weighs in on why it's needed.
