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Fresh Fun for All the Pennsylvania Farm Show Feb. 04, 2020
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — The first time Mee Cee Baker went to the Pennsylvania Farm Show, sh... Read More
Change Is Coming Jan. 29, 2020
As we hurtle into the 2020s, the future of our food economy (and food itself) remains a fiercely con... Read More
America's Farmers Love Trump, but His Policies Don't Love Them Back Jan. 28, 2020
Notwithstanding the warm welcome he received a few days ago at the American Farm Bureau Federation's... Read More
What's the Charitable Thing to Do About Inequality? Jan. 08, 2020
Our society has coined expressions like "philanthropist" and "season of giving" to encourage and hai... Read More
New Report Confirms That US Consumers Are Paying for Trump's China Tariffs Dec. 10, 2019
New York Federal Reserve Bank researchers are reporting what was utterly predictable: The Trump admi... Read More
Thanks, Private Property! Nov. 27, 2019
Families will argue this Thanksgiving. Such arguments have a long tradition. The Pilgrims had clas... Read More
Which Food Future Will You Choose? Nov. 27, 2019
It's time to talk turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I'm talking about the r... Read More
Wasn't a $4.4 Trillion Federal Government Big Enough? Oct. 30, 2019
The leaders of both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate proved again th... Read More
For Farmers Hit by Climate Change, Trump Offers Only Anti-Science Hokum Oct. 28, 2019
American farmers are on the front lines of climate change, wracked by crop-killing floods and rising... Read More
Where Trump Can Find a Good Farm Policy Oct. 23, 2019
Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. Government by ... Read More
Rain Gardens Sep. 11, 2019
Q: I have been thinking about putting in a rain garden. Do you have any advice on building one? What... Read More
Twig Girdlers and Pruners Sep. 04, 2019
Q: All of a sudden, a lot of small short branches broke off the oak tree in our front yard. The grou... Read More
Protecting the Grapevine Aug. 21, 2019
Q: We bought a grapevine on a whim at Home Depot. We planted it along a fence. It grew OK for a coup... Read More
Government for the Rich, the Poor Be Damned Aug. 15, 2019
Donald Trump loooooves farmers. We know this because he says so. "Farmers, I LOVE YOU!" he declared ... Read More
Cucumber Chemicals Aug. 14, 2019
Q: I haven't tried growing cucumbers recently because when I last grew them, they were bitter, and I... Read More
Crabgrass Control Aug. 07, 2019
Q: Our community replaced a bunch of sidewalks and curbs; then they repaired our lawns. They used gr... Read More
Magnolia Scale and Hot Tomatoes Jul. 31, 2019
Q: My magnolia tree has been taken over by flies and wasps. There are half-inch pink bumps on the br... Read More
Vines for a Trellis Jul. 24, 2019
Q: Can you suggest a vine-type plant that can grow and bloom mostly in shade? I have a trellis that ... Read More
Gagging Investigators Jul. 17, 2019
Recording events from public land shouldn't be a crime. Yet when a woman in Utah, standing by a publ... Read More
A Deeper Look at Daylilies Jul. 17, 2019
The botanical name for daylilies is Hemerocallis. It comes from two Greek words: Hemera is day, and ... Read More
