NEWS The Trump administration is asking Congress for more than $11 billion in additional agricultural assistance as part of a broader emergency supplemental spending package tied to military operations involving Iran. The proposal includes roughly $10 billion in direct economic assistance for ...
We received an envelope a while ago, delivered by an official government-certified carrier pigeon. An eye-glance investigation revealed it was nothing less than the U.S. Census. It said we had to comply or face a season of wearing orange. Orange is not in my color wheel, so I got right on ...
I was recently asked to speak at a meeting of a secret society. I was surprised when they invited me as it’s widely known that I can’t keep a secret. My wife and I went to an innocuous building located in the midst of a sleepy college town. We descended a set of concrete stairs that led ...
Editor's note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series. While crop production margins have been negative and subsequently the number of farm bankruptcies has climbed, there is nowhere near the degree of financial crisis occurring that defined what the ag sector went through in the 1980s. ...
NEWS U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer says the Trump administration will soon seek public input on which Chinese imports could qualify for lower tariffs under a new U.S.-China trade framework. The agreement creates a Board of Trade to review roughly $30 billion in non-strategic goods for ...
The medicine cabinet was crusty and rusty, much like me. And like me, it’s old enough to be a museum piece. The cabinet was installed in my parents’ bathroom when it was added onto their farmhouse more than 60 years ago. I was just a tyke at the time, and flushing the toilet was ...
NEWS *The four major beef packers are in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration. The Justice Department, USDA and the White House were all represented at a news conference focusing on anticompetitive behavior in the meatpacking sector. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins emphasized ...
Two weeks after the U.S. House passed its “skinny” Farm Bill — the law’s usual lard had been cut into last July’s reconciliation bill — applause is still yet to be heard in either Washington, D.C. or rural America. One big reason might be exhaustion. After three years of pushing, ...
Every day that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the balance sheet of global oil supply/demand deteriorates a little further. It has now passed the point of concern to where it is becoming a major crisis. Twenty percent of the world’s oil/gas moved through the Strait, but there are some ...
Some children come to us through the wombs and labors of other mothers. And our lives are never the same. A few years ago, while our children were in high school, I began to notice a young guy hanging out with them at our farm. I had never seen him before. He was a year ahead of them in ...