For some reason, a lot of conservatives have a knee-jerk negative reaction to lab-created meat. I checked the writings of the likes of Edmund Burke and John Locke and found nothing on this. Likewise with P.J. O’Rourke — though doubtless,…
“These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all just wanna have total control.” So sang Oliver Anthony two weeks ago in a song that has been heralded as a “blue-collar anthem” — and for good reason. Oliver’s tune…
China’s purchases of United States farmland have increased 456 percent since 2011, with 384,000 acres purchased in 2021, said Rep. Mike Gallagher at a roundtable on Agriculture Technology Theft in Iowa, led by the House Select Committee on the Chinese…
Turkey prices are soaring this Thanksgiving, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With food prices helping to drive inflation to a 40-year high, Americans are feeling the heat at grocery stores and during family dinners. It’s in this…
If you’re tired of tending your farm, you’re in luck: there are plenty of people in town willing to pay to break their own backs. It’s true that they are not very skilled in agricultural matters, but the same thing…
“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.” — James Russell Lowell, 1845 As the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on, rocket and artillery barrage after barrage, Russian battalion after battalion, atrocity after atrocity, the civilized…
Every month, my work takes me driving on country roads through the Amish country of eastern Ohio in Holmes, Coshocton, and Tuscarawas Counties. I look forward to it, except if the weather is bad and those roads pose a challenge….
I just finished mowing 10 acres of lawn. Okay, maybe it wasn’t 10 acres, but firstly, I’m a letters guy and I can’t count, and thirdly, I’m really tired. The chroniclers of yesteryear did funny things. I have journalist friends…
Washington state leaders are about to send half of the state’s essential seasonal farm workers home. The result would destroy over half the state’s three million ton — six billion pound — apple harvest, almost half of the nation’s production…