The American sugar program is a strong contender for the poster child for crony capitalism. And this year, it’s up…

Washington Forget all the tongue clucking about Washington being so divided and nasty that Democrats and Republicans cannot work together….

As leaders in Congress hammer down the details of the Farm Bill, they should use the Senate’s plan for rural…

Although the revamped Farm Bill now being discussed in Congress includes more taxpayer dollars for rural broadband, the Senate version…

America is glutted with cheese. In fact, the size of the American cheese stockpile just hit an all-time high. And…

Someone asked to make a list of lobbyists with the worst reputations on Capitol Hill probably wouldn’t add “the catfish…

Commodity programs are cronyism run amok. Government subsidies (paid for by your tax dollars, of course) protect farmers from reduced crop…

A few weeks ago, we looked into the state of commodity programs from the perspective of farmers. We found that…

America is a generous country. Taxpayers can take pride in the fact that, under the terms of the 2014 Farm…

As the battle over the Farm Bill has raged in the background, we’ve been spending the last few weeks looking…