To the editor: I want to express a big thank you to the Farm News editor for printing Mr. George Naylor's Jan. 9th letter “A Better Way. Facts Matter.” — like the history of Roosevelt's New Deal parity price floor grain program and the role it played in propping up Mainstreet ...
To the editor: I can’t imagine any farmer hoping that a pipeline will get installed across their farm. That said, I think we need the carbon pipeline anyway. I was encouraged to hear that there is a proposal in the Iowa legislature to widen the pipeline route in an effort to work with ...
It’s the beginning of yet another session of the Iowa Legislature with the unresolved issue of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines frustrating legislators and landowners alike. Numerous bills to address the problem were introduced during the past four sessions, but only one made its way to the ...
The Dec. 26 issue of Farm News features columns of Alan Guebert and David Kruse that ignore history or common sense to avoid the calamity of losing more of the best farmers in Iowa. This cost-price squeeze has happened over and over again since I started farming 50 years ago. They ignore the ...
To the editor: According to a recent news story, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just gave a slap-on-the-wrist fine to a big cattle feedlot in northwest Iowa for “unauthorized wastewater discharges” that occurred over three consecutive days in March 2021. That seems like the ...
To the editor: After reading the Farm News Friday, Aug. 22, farmer advice column, "Low prices cure low prices … or so we've been told" by David Kruse his advice "to embrace the suck" is what psychologists and philosophers would call defeatism and for farmers to accept market exploitation! ...
To the editor: Here we are, nearing the end of yet another legislative session with no action on eminent domain reform. Meanwhile, landowners opposed to Summit Carbon Solutions’ CO2 pipeline remain in limbo as we seek help from lawmakers to codify and ban the unconstitutional use of ...
To the editor: When I moved to Iowa in the seventies, Bob Streit was doing agronomy updates on the radio for Dekalb Seeds. Then I lost track of him until he wrote his column in Farm News. Farm media was mostly one big advertisement for purchased inputs ... except for Bob’s columns. He put ...
To the editor: TED Renewables, ITOCHU, or whatever, are scrambling to carpet the land with 900 acres of Chinese plastic. Elon Musk and DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) couldn’t possibly find something efficient in covering one of God’s greatest gifts (the most productive soil ...
To the editor: There’s been a lot of discussion about green methanol as a potential future for ethanol plants, but the reality is clear: building a green methanol plant at an individual ethanol facility is neither feasible nor economically viable. First, while there is growing interest ...