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Speak Your Piece: Maybe Just Different
08/27/2012

My dad once said, “The worst decisions are the easiest to make, and the best decisions are often the hardest to implement.”

Ag and Trade | Politics and Government
Speak Your Piece: Waiting for the HSUS
08/22/2012

Humane Society President Wayne Parcelle talks to farmers and ranchersThe Humane Society of the United States and several ag groups have formed a coalition. The ag groups think HSUS can help save independent farmers and ranchers. But what, exactly, has HSUS done?

Ag and Trade | Cool Places | Health | People to Know
Harlan Hamernik: Fighting Fires and Malaria
08/17/2012

hamernik horned toadA renowned plantsman from the Prairie -- who once declared, “If they’ll grow in Nebraska, they will grow anywhere!” -- now turns his skills to horticultural cures.

Ag and Trade | Food
The New Rural Antitrust Cop
08/14/2012

Dan Owen, the new antitrust cop from Kansas CityThree years ago, the Obama Administration announced that it intended to enforce antitrust laws in the business of agriculture. That never happened, and now the job of antitrust cop in rural America has fallen to a Kansas City attorney.

Ag and Trade | Food | Politics and Government
Odd Allies Fight for Beef Industry's Future
08/10/2012

Small livestock producers are teaming with an unlikely ally -- the Humane Society -- to battle a beef marketing program they say works against them.

Ag and Trade
Speak Your Piece: Going to K.C.
08/08/2012

OCM meeting St. LouisThe Obama administration announced an investigation into antitrust violations in the food business three years ago at a meeting of the Organization for Competitive Markets. OCM meets again, a year after that investigation ended with no action being taken.

Ag and Trade | Food | Politics and Government
Letter From Langdon: Running Out
08/08/2012

During the middle of a drought, our laws tell us that we can't let cattle graze on pasture set aside for conservation. Cows go hungry, farmers plow up conservation land for corn, and food prices rise. Nobody wins.

Ag and Trade
President Meets With 'Rural Council'
08/07/2012
President Obama says the drought required an "all hands on deck response." Says Congress should pass a Farm Bill.
Ag and Trade
Letter From Langdon: Drought, Then and Now
07/27/2012

I'm just an aging farm boy with memories of drought, doing what he learned from his dad on a hot day in 1954.

Ag and Trade | Environment
Speak Your Piece: Adapt, Don’t Destroy Conservation Funding
07/26/2012

To spend federal money more efficiently — and to save the water and the land — Congress should spend more to involve local communities in Farm Bill programs.

Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural
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