Sometimes, bad days are a blessing in disguise, but you don’t know it at the time.
That’s what Big Ag and its loyal boosters at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) appear to be doing to make sure their new project, Sustainab…
If the third time is a charm, Michael Happ might finally make an impression on federal lawmakers and administrators with his fact-filled, 24-p…
When it comes to games, I am not a good player. I lose more times than I win, and I can’t remember the last time I won.
My New Year’s resolution one year was to have one thought per day. After the first week, I ran out of thoughts.
When word came out of Texas on April 1 that avian flu had made another unwelcome hop–this one from a dairy cow to a human–the news seemed like…
Even when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finds enough baling wire to lash together the votes needed to pass the split, almost six-months la…
I’m unsure if this is a new phenomenon or I’m just starting to catch up on the culture.
The first economist, Scotland’s Adam Smith, had it right almost 250 years ago when, as writer Eric Schlosser notes in the foreword of an impor…
Recently, illegitimate aliens of the worst kind have invaded our house illegally.
The older I get, the more I wake up not knowing what day it is. That is particularly true on Mondays.
If an important part of your business is flying between the U.S. and New Zealand–like it is for Air New Zealand–you get pretty skilled at maki…
On March 2, the 13th World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial ended like most previous ministerials. After its 164 member-ministers discusse…
I must confess that I do have a liking for critters of all kinds. I enjoy feeding them out on the back porch, and boy, do they come hungry for…
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Like much of the news anymore, the initial numbers from the 2022 Census of Agriculture were accurately reported, quickly downplayed–or even wo…
Like everybody else, I face problems almost every day. Or maybe I should say, my problem faces me.
While my father milked cows and farmed for almost 50 years, I never heard him say he loved–or, for that matter, even liked–either cows or farming.
When I was young, my favorite sandwich was the baloney sandwich. Sometimes, with cheese and other things, but most importantly, baloney. I can…
Often, I get agitated by people I call “idiots.” I don’t have an inclusive definition for what an idiot really is; I just use the word carelessly.
Recently, a retired friend asked if I planned to retire anytime soon. It was the right question. While I have considered retirement, I explain…
There’s a joke about my fellow Baby Boomers making the rounds that goes something like this: In the 1960s, Boomers didn’t trust anyone over 30…
For at least the past decade, reported The New Lede (TNL) last September, “a growing number of peer-reviewed medical studies have linked expos…
If it were not for decisions, my life would be perfect. After all these years, I still wrestle with decision-making. I admit that I often don’…
The thing that has concerned me as I have aged was about forgetting things. How could I remember everything when I was crowding my brain with …
While January left the old year behind, it didn’t leave behind any of the baggage 2023 saddled American farmers and ranchers with.
Lately, I’ve been very tired. Which has nothing at all to do with my age. Rather, it has everything to do with all these spam calls I get every day.
Like some character in Alice in Wonderland, we’re well beyond the looking glass when the presumptive presidential candidate of the political p…
Since I have reached a certain age, I cannot reveal that age; my energy seems limited. I don’t have the energy I once had. Where it has gone, …