+February 2013
+May 2012
From Environmental Working Group’s Policy Plate blog
Alan Guebert, Farm and Food File columnist, quotes The Atlantic in his take on crop insurance: “From 2000 to 2010, ‘taxpayers contributed more than $42 billion’ to the 15 private companies’ that administer the program…”
Alan is praised in award-winning journalist Bill Knight’s recent online column
From Environmental Working Group’s Policy Plate blog
“Farm and Food File columnist Alan Guebert gets right to the point with concerns about crop insurance in the farm bill. An excerpt: The Senate’s Farm Bill is like trading sugar water for Kool-Aid. It’s a sweet deal for farmers, but it’s just more empty spending by Congress.”
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+April 2012
Triple Crisis Blog praises Alan for his recent column on corporate interest in ag
“Journalist Alan Guebert, in a recent syndicated column, explains how this reform effort, like so many others in the last two years, has been largely gutted in a polarized Washington awash in lobbying money.”
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+February 2012
Alan receives praise for his keynote address at Wisconsin Farmers Union Annual Convention
“A featured guest at the convention banquet was Alan Guebert, whose weekly column, The Farm and Food File, appears in over 70 newspapers. And I like this guy. He told the conventioneers to resist the current fad of being called “producers” and embrace the title of “farmers.” Farmers will gather increasing respect, he argued, if they keep a personal face on the work they do every day on their farms.”
Iowa State University College of Agriculture ends advisory partnership with AgriSol Energy
“(I) ended the College’s advising role because much of our time and energy has been directed at countering misrepresentations about why and how we were involved. It has not been directed at what originally compelled us to explore program development in Tanzania — the role agricultural education can play in helping small farmers and families struggling against poverty and hunger.”
Progressive Farmer reporter nominates Alan to testify at Farm Bill hearing
Commentary in Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Illinois
“Alan Guebert’s column in Monday’s Journal-Courier correctly notes that the problem of the Keystone XL pipeline route through Nebraska was largely solved by that state’s legislature.”
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+December 2011
Alan Guebert will be featured speaker at Wisconsin Farmers Union Annual Convention
“Wisconsin Farmers Union will be hosting its 81st Annual Convention January 27-29, 2012 at the Plaza Hotel & Suites in Wausau. The theme of the convention is “Rural Renewal – Building on Traditions.” Speakers will include Stan Gruszynski, State Director, USDA- Rural Development, discussing challenges and opportunities of rural Wisconsin and Alan Guebert, a national farm columnist, who is a favorite guest at farm meetings around the country.”
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+November 2011
“[Guebert] believes he has excelled as a stay-at-home columnist due to his love of reading as well as his self-discipline. ‘I have worked for myself for more than 25 years. That wouldn’t be remotely possible if I weren’t disciplined to go to my office every day, never fail, and work, work, work,’ he said.”
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+November 2011
Chris Steinbach, Editor of The Muscatine Journal, praises Alan Guebert’s assessment of our current political landscape while encouraging readers to cast their ballots on Election Day.
“In a column today on page 1C, syndicated columnist Alan Guebert says we have the government we deserve. ‘We handed off our responsibilities for neighbors, communities and the nation to a class of professional politicians who told us what we wanted to hear: we could have it all-roads, bridges, wars, pensions, schools, aircraft carriers, health care, clean water-and not pay for it all,’ he says. ‘We - you and I -have checked out. We can't have participatory democracy if we don't participate.’”
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+July 2011
“Recent documents from the Cattlemen's Beef Board and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association reveal a wide-ranging rift over possible reforms and changes to the checkoff. Columnist Alan Guebert highlighted those problems last month, and posted related documents on his website.”
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+ June 2011
Organic Farmers Don’t Follow ‘Get Big’ Mantra
“On the same page of The Pantagraph, Alan Guebert refutes this claim in his column, “First of all, we need to feed ourselves.”
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+ May 2011
A Farm Columnist Highlights Our Growing Debt
“What Alan Guebert highlighted is that there are no plans to cut the national debt. What we're really writing about are mere attempts to slow the rocket of national debt now blasting skyward to the moon and beyond.”
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+ February 2011
Ag Columnist Alan Guebert Receives SDFU Farm & Ranch News Award
“Freelance agriculture columnist Alan Guebert was awarded the Farm & Ranch News Award from the South Dakota Farmers Union on Friday, February 11, during the organization’s 96th annual state convention held in Aberdeen, S.D. Each year South Dakota Farmers Union gives the Farm & Ranch News Award to a member of the media who tells the positive story of agriculture and covers agricultural issues fairly and accurately.”
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+ February 2011
Lincoln Journal Star editorial “Better food labels needed”
“As agriculture columnist Alan Guebert asserted in a Jan. 30 column, the labels designed by leading food companies, including ConAgra of Omaha, are more of a marketing scheme than a traditional food label. The food company's "Nutrition Keys" are a fairly obvious attempt to co-opt and derail the FDA proposal for mandatory guidelines.”
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+ January 2011
Tufts University Globalization and Sustainable Development Newsletter
“Syndicated farm belt columnist Alan Guebert interviewed Timothy A. Wise about his policy brief with Betsy Rakocy, "Hogging the Gains from Trade". The piece was picked up by several farm-oriented publications, including the Fort Wayne Sentinel which published the piece "Level the playing field of trade? Just look out."
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+ November 2010
Letter to the Editor, Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois
“Cattlemen’s group represents very few”
“Alan Guebert provided a clear explanation of the claims in the NCBA’s ad in his column in the Nov. 7 Pantagraph: ‘Meatpackers say hallelujah with or without facts.’ The take-home conclusion for me: Don’t trust the NCBA’s claims. The ad also contains a 35-word convoluted ‘sentence’ beginning with ‘Nearly 150’ and ending in ‘actions. chose not to.’ Look it up! It seems to be mainly an attack on Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Rep. Debbie Halvorson. Fortunately again, Mr. Guebert lays out the facts for us.”
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+ November 2010
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy interviews Alan Guebert
In this Radio Sustain episode, Alan and others discuss the effects of corporate influence on meat and poultry markets on U.S. farmers and ranchers, and how newly proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture legislation changes the rules of the game.
