In a year of too many dark days, Monday, Sept. 14, was a particularly dark day for every American for two reasons.
Even though my days as a farm journalist are getting farther and farther behind me in the rearview mirror, the desire to know what’s going on …
If experience is the best teacher, then surely we have learned a few important, unforgettable lessons in this otherwise forgettable year.
In March 1919, John Reed, an American journalist, published “Ten Days that Shook the World,” his eyewitness book on one of the new century’s m…
World Honey Bee Day came and went, but it wasn’t a celebration: over 40% of insect species are threatened with extinction. Thanks to science, …
While “zombie ideas” isn’t a phrase you often see in farm publications, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has popularized it to describe a…
Like many people in agriculture, I was quickly sucked into the television series “Yellowstone” starring Kevin Costner as John Dutton, the patr…
My grandmother was both a woman of her times and a woman far ahead of even our times. For example, today’s electric cars would be a yawn for h…
Over the past several weeks, thousands of Wisconsin farmers have applied for much-needed government support to cover losses from COVID-19 thro…
There are many reasons to dislike JBS USA, the world’s — and America’s — largest meatpacker.
It turns out that the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” is neither Chinese nor a curse.
Like many farm families, mine speaks in terms of generations. My neighbors do too — stop by their homesteads, and they will tell you how they …
Farmers and ranchers feed our state, our nation, and in fact, our world. You work long hours to provide essential resources for us all, and in…
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The COVID-19 virus is cruel.
Two generations ago, no one in the cattle business ever thought “herd immunity” was a solution to bovine brucellosis. Instead, farmers and ran…
While most county and state fairs are COVID casualties this year, a giant, buzzing Ferris wheel — America’s relationship with China — continue…
The global pandemic has made all of us more appreciative of our food supply. In the early days of the crisis, concerns about food shortages sp…
Mid-July was always summer’s sweet spot on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth.
Midway through a history-making year, we in dairy can take with us important lessons from its first half as we face whatever the second half m…
I am one of only a few legislators who has spent a part of my life working on my family’s farm. There are just a couple of us in the legislatu…
If the ill-tempered and deadly first half of 2020 had been a first-calf heifer on the dairy farm of my youth, my father would have ticketed it…
Did you know most CBD products purchased in Wisconsin are not from Wisconsin?
One of the oldest sayings in journalism reminds readers and writers alike that “It’s hard to argue with facts.”
While the coronavirus pandemic was hammering global trade earlier this year, the various U.S. bureaucracies devoted to trade barely skipped a …
The next time you snack on almonds, add blueberries to your smoothie or eat pumpkin pie, thank a pollinator and thank farmers, ranchers and pr…
Recently, I had the chance to connect virtually with some good friends in western Wisconsin to celebrate June Dairy Month. We had a conversati…
Some observers see the Black Lives Matter movement as a tidal wave washing away America’s original sin, slavery, and the systemic racism it fo…