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 […]
Cereal Killer Gifts Weapon to Iowa Farmers
President Ralph Kramden announced Saturday (2/1/25) that the U.S. was slapping a 25% tariff on all goods from our closest ally, Canada. Pow, right in the kisser, Justin Trudeau. Ralph says we have all the lumber and oil that we need and that if they don’t like it, Canucks can just erase their southern border […]
Well, Drained.
Finally, the end of a sad chapter for Iowa agriculture
A Democracy Runs Through It
Iowa native Norman Maclean (1902-1990) published only two works (The Theory of Lyric Poetry from the Renaissance to Coleridge [1940] and A Manual of Instruction in Military Maps and Aerial Photographs [1943]) before publishing A River Runs Through It, when he was 74 years old in 1976. I cannot read the last 1500 or so […]
Big, if True
Are farmers reducing nitrogen application rates?
Indigestion
Richard Feynman, groupthink, and more pollution for Winneshiek County
Mr. Peabody’s Corn Train
Has hauled Iowa away
White, By Design
Historical context on the preponderance of white Iowa farmers
Behind the Green Door
The lewd cult of nitrogen and Iowa’s stream pollution, examined.
