An Ecological Analogy for Economics In the ecology of farming, the idea is to follow the designs of nature as much as…
Your Brain on Agribusiness I find more than 200,000 hits on Google for ādairy cliff,ā and at least 1,000 tweets on Twitter.Ā …
Introduction Ā In re-interpreting the Food Scorecard, (http://www.foodpolicyaction.org/) below, my conclusions for the election and the two political parties are quite consistent.Ā The…
I’ve started tweeting, and I’ve been running into a lot of articles that misunderstand these the savage dilemmas underlying these issues, and…
Ā This is a side-by-side rebuttal of (Democratic) Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack’s spin about the (Democratic) Senate’s Farm Bill that passed earlier this…
āThese words may fall with an ominous sound on the ears of a generation schooled to look upon all changes as progressive,…
(Regarding this blog, see also the recent blog by Jen Dalton, “Untimely Loss of Dairy Activist is Call to Arms,” at Civil…
Introduction Most of what we hear about the farm bill is that commodity farmers are the winners and that corn is “King.”…
Some History Biofuels are criticized for a variety of reasons. Here I focus on the impact of ethanol on corn prices (biodiesel…
Introduction This should really be four or five blogs, a series.Ā The first is a response to the website of the Small…
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