Farm Bill to Wait Until After Election
Speaker John Boehner vague on bill's direction
Agriculture
California's GMO Labeling Law Isn't the Answer
How Prop 37 restricts speech and needlessly meddles in consumer choice.
Defamation Suits over "Pink Slime" Coverage
ABC news and Department of Agriculture microbiologist targeted
How Ag Gag Laws Suppress Free Speech and the Marketplace of Ideas
Why states are banning farm photography.
California Initiative Puts Profit Ahead of Science
Proposition 37 props up profits for organic growers and denies the scientific consensus in favor of biotech crops.
Farmers: We're in a Drought. Stop with the Ethanol Quota
Forecasts predict a 4 percent rise in food prices.
The Case Against Taxpayer-Funded Crop Insurance
It's time to abolish this costly government boondoggle.
Creating Sustainable Agriculture Without Government Subsidies
An interview with "Christian-conservative-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic" Joel Salatin
The Limits of The Limits to Growth
Contemplating 1972 predictions of environmental doom, just in time for Earth Day
Drug War's Mission Creep Hurts Farmers
The nation's drug warriors fret that hemp cultivation would make pot prohibition harder.
The Return of E-Verify
State governments embrace a dangerous employment verification database.
Margarine Bootleggers Sent to Federal Prison
...and other stories of what happens when the government plays with your food.
Uncle Sam Will Help Buy You an Alpaca
How the government produces negative unintended consequences
Cultivating Independence
Farmers and government policy must both change if American agriculture is to escape the subsidy trap.
