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Pleasant Parks Provide Pastimes for All Ages Jul. 26, 2025
By Victor Block Millions of Americans have been spending the last few months tilling soil and planti... Read More
History Lives on in These Notable Places Jul. 12, 2025
By Victor Block On a farmstead near the tiny town of Eagle, Wisconsin — population about 2,000... Read More
My Church is a Farmer's Market -- And Vice Versa May. 14, 2025
Well, habemus papam. Welcome, Pope Leo! Bless him ... and us. I hope no one thinks I am blasphemous,... Read More
Tracy and the Chocolate Factory Aug. 22, 2023
Every so often, I get an email of doom that has been sent to me along with everyone else on the plan... Read More
What Warming Might Do to New England Feb. 23, 2023
Maine's Aroostook County — the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island put together — is wa... Read More
Avian Flu Is Crushing Farmers Jan. 17, 2023
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — The public's pocketbooks have been hit hard by the skyrocketing cos... Read More
You, Carter! You're Hired! Jul. 30, 2021
A note I made for this column: Sitting in a bar. Watching television news. Guy next to me, guy with ... Read More
Another African Tragedy Mar. 04, 2020
Here are a few headlines about an African tragedy: "Africa's Worst Locust Plague in Decades Threaten... 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
What Does Made in America Mean to Trump? May. 15, 2019
"MAGA," blusters Donald Trump. "Make America Great Again!" America's ranching families, however, wou... Read More
How Much Does Donald Trump Love Farmers? Mar. 20, 2019
As a farmer told me, "You can still make a small fortune in agriculture, but the problem is you have... Read More
Corporations Are Playing With Our Food -- and With Our Heads Mar. 06, 2019
From kitchen tables worldwide, you can hear a chorus of parents chastising their children with the s... Read More
A Bountiful Harvest Takes Work Feb. 13, 2019
Campaigns end on Election Day. Movements don't. Voting day is a time stamp for measuring our progres... Read More
The AgriCULTURE Attitude Nov. 21, 2018
Thanksgiving — let's eat! America's most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abu... Read More
Out of the Frying Pan, Onto a Farm Aug. 07, 2018
"For many years ... I never rested," Ray Stannard Baker wrote more than a century ago. "I neither th... Read More
In a Scientific Dispute Over Roundup, Monsanto Gets a Boost Jun. 27, 2017
In March 2015, as Monsanto Co. was enduring a 12-month 28 percent slide in its stock price, an agenc... Read More
The Farmer in the Deli Mar. 16, 2017
I understand. Every week, you anxiously await the high quality advice this column provides on how t... Read More
It's Time To Put Food Policy Back On The Table Feb. 15, 2017
During the farm crisis of the 1980s, an Iowa farmer asked if I knew the difference between a family ... Read More
Short Takes Oct. 17, 2016
Sock puppet's on first The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in New York this week settled a critically imp... Read More
Stop the Carnage! No More Rotten Produce in the Garbage Sep. 08, 2016
I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around this documented fact: Experts say that almost ha... Read More
