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Our money, their mouth, your choice
If put in charge, would Republicans really cut crop insurance, gut CRP and eliminate dairy and sugar programs or is their Blueprint more baloney than beef?
Given what we don’t know, why do we act like we do know?
Given our broad ignorance of Africa, why do we still think we know what’s best for this incredibly diverse, enormous continent’s farm and food sectors?
Thank you Ohio, and hello Iowa!
Reporter Chis Kick reflects on his experience as a local ag journalist, and his future career at Iowa State University.
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.
There goes the neighborhood
Farm and ranch groups are now less social and more tribal. Many have a “we’re-right, you’re-wrong” view of farm and food tech, policy and their customers.
With effort, bald eagles have bounced back
Recovering species can be a long, slow process, but that’s what makes the process worthwhile. Today, bald eagles nest in all states except Hawaii.
Snowy winter days sure have changed
A dash of sugar-like snow is almost lost in the brown grass and gray sky out my back door. Winter’s dullness seems to have finally caught February and the weight has slowed it to a cold crawl. Fifty years ago a tablespoon more snow or a teaspoon more ice would have changed a plow horse
If you see a hummingbird, tell officials
Christmas for Ohio and Pennsylvania Birders Pennsylvania and Ohio birders must have been particularly good this year. In mid-December they got an early Christmas gift. On almost the same day, an Allen’s hummingbird showed up in Holmes County, Ohio and Lancaster County, Pa. It was a first for both states. Over the last 12 years
I’ll be thinking of Uncle Honey July 14
As the end of June edges into sight, my mind floats back to those hot, long days on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth when noon dinner brought everyone together for the day’s big meal. Afterward, all the adults napped until precisely 1 p.m. Uncle Honey, my father’s uncle who spent 20 of
Walleye lessons still hold true over 20 years later
In the mid-1980s, Lake Erie’s declared title of Walleye Capital of the World was already well established and undisputable. Those were times when the accepted method of walleye fishing was drift fishing and casting to the fish. The waters of Erie’s shallow western basin, a body of water stretching from Toledo to the islands, contained
