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Cats & chickens By: Brent Olson 12/12/2011 @ 8:49am

I'm getting tired of hearing our politicians talk about stuff that doesn't matter. They need to start dealing with items of substance. For instance, when are they going ...

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Choosing sides By: Brent Olson 08/02/2011 @ 1:13pm

My plan this week was to write about our new cats, because we’re back in the cat biz after a few years without any.   So, we have two kittens, one black and one grey ...

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Harmon By: Brent Olson 05/24/2011 @ 3:03pm

Harmon Killebrew died last week. If you're not from Minnesota or a baseball fan, you might not know who he was, but for me, a mediocre Little Leaguer in the Sixties, Harmon ...

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Obama’s own fringe group ... By: DANIEL LOOKER 11/04/2010 @ 4:10pm

Remember Terri Schiavo? The Florida woman with brain damage whose husband sought a court order to pull her feeding tube while her parents and family fought back? Congress voted to ...

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Food safety bill could nip ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 11/20/2009 @ 2:37pm

Tired of partisan gridlock in Washington? There's nothing partisan about food safety. This week the Senate's Health Education Labor and Pensions committee -- the same ...

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Corn crop looks good, maybe ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 09/23/2009 @ 9:37am

For the second year in a row, we are in the middle of September hoping that the late-planted corn crop will mature before frost strikes. Last year warm weather held, and the yield ...

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A peek into California's ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 04/27/2009 @ 2:18pm

Pick a number, any number. At the risk of downplaying two years of hard work by the staff of the California Air Resources Board, that's essentially what the Board did last ...

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Energy costs: Pay now or pay ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 04/01/2009 @ 1:20pm

No matter what one thinks about the proposal of the Obama administration to eliminate direct payments to farms with gross sales in excess of $500,000, it is becoming clear that ...

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No time to get greedy By: Agriculture.com Staff 03/26/2009 @ 8:09am

Every spring brings its own risks for what is undeniably a risky profession. That being said, it seems to us that the challenges farmers face this year are greater than ...

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The end of direct payments? By: Agriculture.com Staff 02/27/2009 @ 12:48pm

With corn prices getting uncomfortably close to $3 a bushel, you may not feel like a wealthy farmer, but under President Barack Obama's proposals for the USDA budget next ...

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Expensive stimulus bill is a ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 02/25/2009 @ 8:45am

The $787 billion stimulus bill approved in mid-February 2009 has been justified in terms of being an essential element in preventing a downturn that could be as serious as the ...

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Has ethanol's boost to ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 02/03/2009 @ 12:24pm

Recent news stories have been flush with reports about developments in cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels production. Maybe these reports help provide an understanding of why ...

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We pasteurize milk: Should ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 01/22/2009 @ 9:28am

One of the recurring discussion topics of this column is food safety. In a recent column, we talked about imported honey. At other times we have talked about melamine in ...

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Supply response to sky-high ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 12/09/2008 @ 11:15am

The steep ramp-up of grain and oilseed prices over a couple of years only to drop by one-half in a matter of a three or four months has been extremely confusing to lots of folks ...

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President Clinton on food ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 11/11/2008 @ 1:08pm

Former President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at the World Food Day program at the United Nations on October 23, 2008. His talk (it can be viewed here) raised a number of ...

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Just stupid By: Agriculture.com Staff 10/29/2008 @ 9:39am

Before we start on this week's topic, a few words about last week's. I heard from some readers about last week's column. Someone with way too many student loans ...

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A new plateau for corn prices ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 10/29/2008 @ 9:35am

Each month the USDA publishes its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) that gives an up-to-date estimate of the US and world markets for major agricultural ...

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USDA farm bill rules and regs ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 09/30/2008 @ 8:38am

In teaching policy, I tell my class that the passage of a piece of legislation is only one step in the process. Once Congress has passed a piece of legislation, the appropriate ...

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Washington consensus, phase ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 09/19/2008 @ 12:04pm

The mantra of U.S. agricultural trade policy has been market access -- the willingness to forego a significant amount of subsidies in exchange for lowered agricultural product ...

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Doha: Agricultural ... By: Agriculture.com Staff 09/08/2008 @ 7:24am

Like the figure of speech concerning cats, the Doha round of trade negotiations seems to have many lives. We have heard so many declarations that if deadline X (you name the date) ...

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