Farm and Food File: Hanging it up after 33 years
Journalism has many traditions. One of the oldest is adding “-30-” after the last paragraph of a just-completed story to…
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Farm and Food File: Just saying so doesn’t make it so
Too many officials in the Trump Administration and several farm state Capitol Hill leaders believe that just saying something is…
Farm and Food File: Congress has much to do, and it won’t do much
I’m old enough to remember when Congress – like most Americans – worked during the summer. Sure, the pinstriped, air-conditioned…
Farm and Food: There are no rules for little brothers
In the ongoing, years-long group text between my four brothers and sister, there was a brief exchange the Saturday before…
Farm and Food File: Three honest questions needing three honest answers
In yet another effort to explain the 2025 changes to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs), a mid-June headline in…
Farm and Food: Good luck eating that cotton sandwich
The June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) from USDA contains a paradox policymakers might want to note: Domestic…
Screwworms eat flesh, and screw-ups cost money
Poor Joe Biden. Out of office for 17 months and he’s still the reason for every Trump administration failure, large…
Farm and Food: Big Bacon’s Farm Bill carve-out needs to be carved out
Farm Bills are often loaded with “special interest” lard that favors, say, crop insurance companies, international grain merchandisers, meatpackers, a……
Farm and Food File: The ‘beans, beef and Boeing’ show sputters back to reality
Remind me to never take commodity market or stock market advice from the current resident of the White House. Two…
Farm and Food File: Who is Palantir and why is USDA giving it $300 million?
On April 22, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) signed a $300 million “blanket purchase agreement” with Palantir Technologies Inc. to,…
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