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Farm and Food File: Saul to Paul; Friedman to Keynes
In a nine-page story for The New Republic, Judge Markets Rock declared himself Judge Markets Reek and in one Michael Jordan-like move, Posner dumped Chicago and Friedman for England and John Maynard Keynes.
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Farm and Food File: U.S. cows, cowboys and wheat acres disappearing
A quick peek at many of today’s operative numbers in American agriculture should raise rural eyebrows and maybe a few Capitol Hill curiosities. The latest cattle figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture illustrate what I mean.
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Farm and Food File: Consumers aren’t stupid, so stop ‘educating’ them on what they need
Give customers a chance to pick between a pork chop “produced” by a pork “producer” or one raised with skill and husbandry by a hog “farmer,” and what chop will they take? Right; so give ’em what they want, not what you want.
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Farm and Food File: Only a coincidence? You’ve got to be kidding me
$4 million in taxpayer money headed your way at 10:30 and by 12:30 you’re headed to a plush Mexican beach playground for a five-day ‘marketing conference’ in the middle of the Midwestern winter.
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Farm and Food File: NCBA cowboys reach for more checkoff cash
It’s an audacious plan for the commodity group whose membership does not include 97 percent of American cattlemen and dairy farmers who, by law, must pay the non-refundable, federal checkoff.
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Farm and Food File: ... and this little piggy squealed all the way to Washington, D.C.
If you’re an AMI-linked big packer — and there’s nothing but big packers left in America — nothing good can come from the government peeking under your bloody apron.
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Farm and Food File: The politics of sustainable ag
One of the shining gems of the nation’s Land Grant university system, the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, begins 2010 in deep fescue over an internal controversy on who will lead the institution — a candidate strongly favored by most involved in the search process or another favored by the state’s influential farm groups.
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Farm and Food File: Why, oh why, couldn’t I have grown up to be a meatpacking executive?
Rare is the new year that begins without me wondering how I took a wrong turn on the road of life and became a writer rather than a highly paid, universally respected, heaven-bound meatpacking executive.
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Farm & Food File: Not-so-merry greetings for a ‘dour, ridiculous’ columnist
Come on, you don’t want to end this year reading what an aging aggie like me thinks the “Best Stories of 2009” are. Easy as it might be — health care, global warming, cap-and-trade, Uncle Honey…
What, I already wrote about all those things?
OK, how about what you wrote on what I wrote to tell me how wonderful and wise the weekly adventures in editing were?
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Farm & Food File: Young Guebert discovers the truth about Santa Claus
Of the many memories I have of Christmas on the farm, I don’t have a single memory of ever telling Santa what I wanted for Christmas.
I do remember being told innumerable times that I had better be good or Santa wouldn’t bring me what I wanted. How could he, was my sassy reply, when I hadn’t told him what I wanted.
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