Free Rangers Can’t Have It Both Ways October 14, 2013 1:43 am| “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” was something I heard my mother say a…
Science, Science Fiction, and Political Science October 7, 2013 2:02 am| The term Science (from Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations…
Why Do We Grow All This Corn? September 30, 2013 12:48 am|As the combines roll across millions of acres of farmland in the US this time of year, hundreds…
Is Free Food a Right? September 23, 2013 1:50 am| The United States was founded on the principle that every citizen had certain “unalienable” rights. Over the course…
Teaching Consumers About Risk September 16, 2013 1:53 am|Anyone who works in or around agriculture knows all too well that farming is a risky business. Yet…
The Sky is Falling, Yet Again September 9, 2013 2:00 am|Last summer as the temperatures soared and crops wilted in the fields across much of the nation, the…
Going to War for Big Oil, Again September 3, 2013 2:52 am|Once again, the US is saber-rattling in the Persian Gulf. Administration officials are spoon feeding the media with…
How to Ruffle the Feathers of a Chicken Activist August 26, 2013 1:50 am|One of the fastest and easier ways to stir up the ire of radical animal activist groups is…
For Consumers, Seeing is Believing August 18, 2013 7:47 pm| The old adage states “seeing is believing.” For today’s skeptical, media-overwhelmed consumer, this is certainly true. There was…
Has the Indiana State Fair Abandoned Livestock Agriculture? August 12, 2013 1:28 am|It is a year of change and adjustment at the Indiana State Fair. It is change driven by…