ALAN GUEBERT
GUEBERT: State's abandoning public universities, research
A troubling trend leaves an ever-shrinking pool of available dollars for public institutions like land grant universities to address an ever-expanding list of new problems facing farmers and ranchers
By Alan Guebert , January 24, 2013
GUEBERT: Ag Committee member pastes Boehner over farm bill
Collin Petersen: “I see no reason why the House Agriculture Committee should undertake the fool’s errand to craft another long-term bill if the Republican Leadership refuses to give any assurances that our bipartisan work will be considered.”
By Alan Guebert , January 17, 2013
GUEBERT: You ‘gasified windbag’
“You never cease to amaze me with your ineptness,” began this reader’s email.
By Alan Guebert , January 02, 2013
GUEBERT: A simple gift from the hired man
The Christmas tree was a scrub cedar hacked from the edge of the woods that bordered the farm. Big-bulbed lights, strung in barber pole fashion, generated almost as much heat as the nearby wood stove. Yellowed Christmas cards, saved over the years and perched like doves in the untrimmed branches, served as ornaments.
By Alan Guebert , December 27, 2012
GUEBERT: Crop insurance pushing land prices 'to the moon'
Many ingredients go into the rocket fuel that pushes land values and rents to the moon: commodity prices, aggressive local farmers, excess machinery capacity, cheap labor, low interest rates, federal farm program benefits. A new, major ingredient, however, is federal crop insurance.
December 20, 2012
GUEBERT: A farm bill for Christmas?
Santa: "Without snow, I look like just another fat man in a tight suit with too many pets.”
By Alan Guebert , December 13, 2012
GUEBERT: Cooking my goose
For the first year in five, the lovely Catherine and I will not be driving a sack of sweet potatoes, a cooler with a thawing turkey buried under dozens of adult beverages and a jar of sauerkraut to Washington, D.C., for Thanksgiving with The Heirs.
November 23, 2012
GUEBERT: High-speed computer trading makes mockery of commodity markets
It is trading driven by computers running algorithms developed by money managers who don’t know cocoa beans from soybeans and don’t care.
By Alan Guebert , October 25, 2012
GUEBERT: Organic by another name ... like science
Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy published a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine that, according to the NY Times, “concluded that fruits and vegetables labeled organic were, on average, no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts, which tend to be far less expensive.”
By Alan Guebert , October 18, 2012
GUEBERT: Wall Street Journal overhaul leaves out ag coverage
It’s far easier to see the news — like earthquakes, wars and droughts — than explain what it means to you and me. If an explanation is offered, however, most often it’s wrapped in political puffery.
By Alan Guebert , September 27, 2012
GUEBERT: Cattle, kids to vote in Ohio’s checkoff
According to Chicago legend, a tombstone somewhere in the city reads: “John Smith, Born 1934, Died 1981, Voted 1984, 1988, 1992.”
By Alan Guebert , September 20, 2012
GUEBERT: Numbers, like beauty, can take your breath away
National Cattleman's Beef Association paid its top hand, Forrest Roberts, $336,584 in salary and $19,942 “other compensation” in 2009.
September 06, 2012
GUEBERT: ‘All these numbers’ tell a story now
In modern political campaigns it’s a given that opponents will attack each others’ ideas, misrepresent each others’ record and, metaphorically, make every attempt to rip each others’ ugly face off.
By Alan Guebert , August 22, 2012
GUEBERT: Farm bill needs rural-urban coalition
Journalism school doesn’t make cynics out of people who pick up the pen for a living. Committing journalism — using the pen to chronicle the escapades of crooks and crackpots you encounter as a journalist — often does, though.
By Alan Guebert , August 08, 2012
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