Taking the Cow Path
Did environmentalists lay an egg on cattle?
Peaches
If John McPhee can write an entire book with the one word title “Oranges”, I can write an essay titled “Peaches.”
A Misstep in the Wrong Direction
News on August 25 reported Sheriff Mike Naig unholstering his squirt gun yet again to apply a gentle mist onto the raging inferno that is Iowa’s water quality and overall environmental condition. This time it was $3 million from the state’s water quality initiative fund for a pilot project that would install buffer strips (i.e. […]
A Progressive Platform for Iowa Food and Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture is one of seven executive offices Iowans see on their off-year voting ballot. The Iowa legislature created both the office and the Department of Agriculture (now IDALS) in 1923. It may seem curious that we have a statewide election for the administrator of a department that employs less than 2% of the […]
There’s Been a Deluge, All Right…
….of bullshit
Fight for Your Life
Because politicians won’t fight for it
You Can’t Do a Damn Thing About It
So remember that, chumps.
Money Laundering in the Big Ag Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a collection of organisms that interact with one another and the physical environment to form a functioning unit; nutrient and energy flows bond the codependent species and individuals within species. Some ecosystems include a diverse assemblage of many different species (rain forest); others are not so diverse (tundra). Of course, ecosystems commonly […]
For What It’s Worth
There’s something happening hereBut what it is ain’t exactly clearThere’s a man with a gun over thereTelling me I got to beware The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is one of four separate agencies within USDA, with the others being the Economic Research Service (ERS), the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), and the National […]
Stray Dogma
“The Party has taught you all to be cunning, and whoever becomes too cunning loses all decency.”—Arthur Koestler in Darkness at Noon I suspect most of my readers share my repugnance for the now repulsively-named Republican Party, no longer a political party per se but rather a secular religion that might as well go ahead […]
