Tag: politics
Making and breaking the rules
Alan Guebert reflects on recent changes to the USDA budget, and Sam Clovis' nomination to be USDA’s undersecretary of research, education, and economics.
Readers react to the Farm and Food File
Six months may have passed since readers last got their say in this space but nothing during that time has mellowed their views of this effort.
Obamacare overhaul is a failure
Still, the goal now is the same as then: provide the best health care with the most choice to the largest number of Americans at the fairest price.
Turn on your fake news radar
Editor Susan Crowell suggests everyone plays a major role in rejecting fake news.
Testing nerves is part of good commentary and column writing
Many have questioned why newspapers continue to run his columns. Alan Guebert weighs in on the subject.
Remembering Sen. Glenn: Ordinary Americans do extraordinary things
Regardless of his hero status, John Glenn was a soft-spoken Ohio man who cared deeply for his country.
Elections come and go; we stay
While elected officials — good and bad — come and go, the people always persevere.
Ag needs less talk, more listening
If politics won't fix growing public problems -- crumbling roads, worsening schools, widening income gaps -- people will find other ways, oftentimes violent, they believe will fix them.
For the record: Gov. Mike Pence on agriculture’s biggest issues
Trump’s anti-trade tirades and Pence’s flip-flops on key farm and ranch issues such as the Farm Bill and renewable fuels could be bad for agriculture.
UK farmers face uncertainty
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will remain the key farm income scheme in the UK, even after the Brexit vote.
