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My mother fondly remembers the smell of burning leaves on the streets of her Chicago neighborhood growing up. There was something so American at the time about being able to burn your waste and not have to worry about the pollutants and other hazards that now concern us.....more>>
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Farm and Food File: Sucker-punched by comments, questions, snide remarks
With the summer’s big holiday just ahead and the midpoint of the year just behind, it’s time to empty the office bucket of spleen, venom, anger and an occasional kiss readers vented, hurled, sent and tossed my way.
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Farm and Food File: Questions for a long, hot summer in the markets
Is the yet-young ethanol industry so much stronger than the ages-old livestock industry that it will continue to crank out fuel even as America’s food production drops and food prices soar? The USDA thinks so; I think that’s an enormous leap of faith.
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Commentary: Energy — Why ownership matters
American Energy for the 21st century has the potential to benefit the rural communities of the Upper Minnesota River Watershed and, in contrast to the coal imported from Wyoming and burned in South Dakota, it can be clean, renewable, sustainable, distributed, and to every extent possible, owned and to the benefit of the people who live here in Minnesota.
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Land Minds: Obama or McCain — Let the race begin
Even though we are in the 21st century, and race should not matter, I’m afraid it still does to all too many in this country. I don’t care about the color, gender, party affiliation, dietary habits, or whether or not they are a pet owner. What matters to me is if they can do the job.
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Farm and Food File: High price for deregulation hits hard
“There’s no ‘food crisis’ in the world today,” a farmer told me at a late-May gathering. “The crisis is all the big money pushing up commodity prices.”
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Farm and Food File: Bare cupboard needs big crop to fill it
There’s no profit in arguing with government numbers, a veteran commodity trader once moaned to me. “You might be right come two months,” he explained, “but the market might kill you in two weeks.”
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Land Minds: Making of the 2007 farm ‘sausage’
German-Prussian politician Otto von Bismarck once said, “Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.” With the recent completion of the 2007 farm bill, that saying took on greater significance.
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Farm and Food File: Dairy co-op focus of investigations
June is dairy month so let’s begin the festivities with a look-see into the giant (black and white) elephant, the mega-cooperative Dairy Farmers of America.
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Farm and Food File: ‘Grassroots’ anti-ethanol campaign as fake as Astroturf
According to two documents posted on Sen. Charles Grassley’s congressional website, the “grassroots” anti-ethanol media blitz that’s hitched today’s climbing food prices to farmer-backed biofuels is as fake as Astroturf.
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