Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
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From Environmental Working Group’s Policy Plate blog
Posted on May 30, 2012
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…”
From Environmental Working Group’s Policy Plate blog
Posted on May 25, 2012
“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.”
Triple Crisis Blog praises Alan for his recent column on corporate interest in ag
Posted on April 30, 2012
“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.”
Progressive Farmer reporter nominates Alan to testify at Farm Bill hearing
Posted on February 25, 2012
Commentary in Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Illinois
Posted on February 15, 2012
“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.”
University of Illinois College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) alumni profile
Posted on November 30, 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.”
Chris Steinbach, Editor of The Muscatine Journal, praises Alan Guebert’s assessment
Posted on November 25, 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 […]
Beef Checkoff CEO Resigns
Posted on July 30, 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.”
Organic Farmers Don’t Follow ‘Get Big’ Mantra
Posted on June 30, 2011
“On the same page of The Pantagraph, Alan Guebert refutes this claim in his column, “First of all, we need to feed ourselves.”
A Farm Columnist Highlights Our Growing Debt
Posted on May 30, 2011
“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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Honest question: What does keeping the seat Dem do for Iowa agriculture, its farmers, and environment? Honest answer: Same thing the Dem Sec. of Ag from Iowa has done last two years-more ethanol, more dirty water, & more Big Ag. https://t.co/rwouHWCQiq
@daswenson @RiverRaccoon, can carbon be sequestered in corn-soy commodity system in drained/tiled fields? If not, doesn’t this one fact alone take most of Iowa and IL crop farmers out of the carbon game (yes, game) before it begins?
Cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits would have far greater impact on rural America than cuts to farm program payments. https://t.co/lc6SN65Jbn