ALAN GUEBERT
Dairy’s dive into the unknown
It’s one of American agriculture’s best truisms: Only six people in the world understand U.S. dairy policy and none of the six milks cows.
It’s not true, of course. Only four people understand U.S. dairy policy.
And soon it’s about to get worse.
By Alan Guebert , May 23, 2013
GUEBERT: Late corn planting in May
The first good corn planting day of spring finally arrived at my central Illinois farmette April 30. Like the month’s previous 29 days, however, no one within 100 miles used it to plant because near-record rains had washed April away.
By Alan Guebert , May 09, 2013
GUEBERT: SNAP will bite back if not funded
Cuts to food aid will cut farm sales and profits.
By Alan Guebert , May 02, 2013
GUEBERT: Ranchers paying for the right to lose
Chicago Cubs baseball fans and American cow-calf ranchers have two things in common. First, they can’t win for losing and, second, they pay heavily for the right to do just that.
By Alan Guebert , April 25, 2013
GUEBERT: Odious riders on poultry, genetically modified crops pass Congress
Congress needs more open lawmaking and fewer lobbyists, more bottom-up debate and less top-down dismissiveness, more well-lit transparency and less in-the-dark committee work.
By Alan Guebert , April 18, 2013
GUEBERT: Beware the coming market calamity
The money underwriting it all, he claims, is not coming from a healthy, stable economy but from the Federal Reserve’s “egregious flood of phony money” that has “expanded [the Fed’s] balance sheet six-fold, to $3.2 trillion from $500 billion,” since the year 2000.
By Alan Guebert , April 10, 2013
GUEBERT: Land prices reach nutty levels
How long will this all last? About 10 minutes longer than the end of mandated ethanol use.
By Alan Guebert , April 04, 2013
GUEBERT: US exports have soared under Obama
Outgoing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk is a mostly unsung, hardly ever mentioned and still pretty much unknown bureaucrat, serving from 2009 to 2013.
By Alan Guebert , March 14, 2013
GUEBERT: Herding sacred government cats
In the run-up to the Great Budget Sequester of 2013, a deeply indebted America once again learned what every American knows from birth: your government program got us into this mess, not mine.
March 07, 2013
GUEBERT: Health care about care, not politics
How this plays out carries bigger consequences for rural Americans because “out here” we’re older, poorer and more dependent on government-supported health care than our urban counterparts.
By Alan Guebert , February 28, 2013
GUEBERT: Seed patents before US Supreme Court
The stakes for farmers and Monsanto are enormous: Bowman seeks to overturn lower and appellate court judgments against him for violating plant patents held by Monsanto when he bought, and later planted and harvested, Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans from a local elevator.
By Alan Guebert , February 21, 2013
GUEBERT: No trust in antitrust
In his second inaugural address Jan. 21, President Obama once again committed his administration to antitrust enforcement by noting that “a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.” Exactly. So, when?
By Alan Guebert , February 14, 2013
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
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