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Come and Visit Delightful Door County, Wisconsin Apr. 14, 2024
By Doug Hansen Cherry pie, cherry pancakes and cherry pastries galore. Lavender fields with 30,000 p... Read More
Theme Parks Lure With Summer Fun Apr. 13, 2024
By Victor Block In 1829, a Pennsylvania man named Henry Knoebel bought a small wooded area that he u... Read More
Just What We Need -- Another Border Wall! Jan. 31, 2024
In the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and p... Read More
The Children of Buddha Dec. 01, 2023
Buddha says don't fight back. Christ says the same thing. Both are widely ignored. In Israel, on the... Read More
All Food on the Table Comes from a Farm. Right? Nov. 30, 2023
I asked ChatGPT, "What is meant by 'farm to table'?" The artificial intelligence site answered: "'F... Read More
Montana Turns Into Feudal Estates Oct. 26, 2023
We get the allure of the Great American West, the majestic landscapes, rivers teeming with trout, cl... Read More
Brother Worries About Farming Sister Sep. 30, 2023
Dear Annie: My sister and her husband are both in their mid-80s and live on a farm. He is disabled. ... Read More
Me, Asleep in the Hay Dec. 23, 2022
Other than teaching me to speak it, my French Canadian immigrant grandmother taught me three things ... Read More
Where's the Beef? Jul. 20, 2022
How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat? At the beginning of ... Read More
Corporate Welfare Sep. 15, 2021
Today's politicians want to spend more on EVERYTHING: Amtrak subsidies, sports stadium subsidies, gr... Read More
Llama Mama in the COVID Age Sep. 19, 2020
"Watch out. She spits," the teenager said. "She spits?" I asked. "Yeah, she's pregnant and peeved of... Read More
Where Trump Can Find a Good Farm Policy Oct. 23, 2019
Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. Government by ... Read More
We All Live in a Small Town Oct. 09, 2019
Chances are excellent that when you read the heading on this column, you thought to yourself, "Man, ... Read More
Brother Worries About Farming Sister Sep. 14, 2019
Dear Annie: My sister and her husband are both in their mid-80s and live on a farm. He is disabled. ... Read More
Buying at 70 Jun. 23, 2019
Dear Edith: What do you think of an older person buying a house or a condo? I'll be 70 this year. I ... Read More
Corporations Are Playing With Our Food -- and With Our Heads Mar. 06, 2019
From kitchen tables worldwide, you can hear a chorus of parents chastising their children with the s... Read More
From Your Table to Their Farm Dec. 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — Forget all the tongue clucking about Washington being so divided and nasty that D... Read More
The AgriCULTURE Attitude Nov. 21, 2018
Thanksgiving — let's eat! America's most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abu... Read More
Coalitions Of Agriculture Outsiders Tackle Powerful Agribiz Insiders Dec. 20, 2017
In the 1980s, when I was Texas Ag commissioner, my staff and I proposed a comprehensive set of state... Read More
Ostracized Because of Sexual Orientation Sep. 18, 2017
Dear Annie: I am a 15-year-old boy, and my family hates me because I am gay. For as long as I can re... Read More
