Chaos, The New Normal December 31, 2012 12:16 am|Being a product of 1960’s television, when I hear the word “chaos,” I immediately think of agents 86…
What Christmas and Agriculture Have in Common December 16, 2012 10:06 pm|It is something people used to know quite intimately, but now only have a vague idea of what…
Fighting For Your Right to Exist December 9, 2012 6:46 pm|“God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, ‘Have many children. Fill the earth with your…
Bread For The World December 3, 2012 12:29 am|Sometime in the next few weeks, a big winter storm will roll across the Midwest. Local television weather…
Consumer Confidence in Their Food is Higher than You Might Think November 25, 2012 11:31 pm|To walk through a modern supermarket you will see signs and labels that would give you the impression…
Making Rural Cool Again November 19, 2012 12:46 am|In the 1950s and 60s, small town America was an okay place to be. Young men returning home…
Lessons Not Learned May Have to be Relearned November 12, 2012 2:35 am|Last week, I had the privilege of sitting with three former Secretaries of Agriculture: Bob Bergland, Jack Block,…
Have Americans Forgotten How To Work? November 4, 2012 11:51 pm|Talk to the average farmer today about how he got started in farming and he will tell you…
Something is Missing from the Campaign October 28, 2012 2:07 pm|There is something missing from the current Presidential campaign. While there is no shortage of attack ads, no…
Pork Producers Have an Image Problem October 21, 2012 11:12 pm|Whenever a big city newspaper publishes a front page story on agriculture, it is seldom a good thing. …