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Rural Does Not Equal Red Feb. 17, 2021
To say that President Joe Biden lost the rural vote is to sugarcoat the dire situation Democrats fac... Read More
We Can Push Biden for Fundamental Change Feb. 10, 2021
We've put Joe Biden in the White House ... but what do we get back for that? We get a real possibili... Read More
All-America Selections Vegetable Winners Jan. 20, 2021
Last week, we looked at the flowers that won 2021 All-America Selections awards, and this week, we l... Read More
Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is? Dec. 02, 2020
Years ago, Robert Kennedy noted that making economic, political and social progress is hard because ... Read More
The AgriCULTURE Attitude Nov. 25, 2020
America's most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abundant feast that Pilgrims and In... Read More
This Thanksgiving, Let's Celebrate AgriCULTURE, Not AgriBUSINESS Nov. 18, 2020
In December 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came tantalizingly close to getting the U... Read More
People Feel What They Feel. There's No Arguing Nov. 03, 2020
Therapists counseling couples in trouble tend to follow this game plan: Before the combatants start ... Read More
Trump's Bass-Ackward Government Aug. 19, 2020
Gosh, President Donald Trump has really been busy lately: busy assailing Sen. Kamala Harris as "nast... Read More
Trump's Trade War Has Cost Billions and Ensnared Farmers in Federal Dependency Aug. 03, 2020
While Congress ponders whether and how much additional relief money will be needed to support worker... Read More
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
