I have discussed the GMO labeling issue many times on Samuelson Sez, and every time, my position supporting GMO’s has generated some of the nastiest e-mails I have ever received. So this week I am ...

How many times have I heard the question – “Are this year’s crops really that good?” Since USDA released it’s August Crop Production Report, I have heard the question quite a few times from producers ...

My wife Gloria subscribes to the national magazine Consumer Reports. The current issue, which arrived in our mailbox just a few days ago, sent my blood pressure sharply higher because of the cover and ...

“There’s a fox in the hen house!” That familiar old term was used in an article by Amanda Radke in her recent article in Beef Magazine reporting the story of the new members appointed to the USDA ...

As I write this edition of Samuelson Sez, I am looking forward to next Wednesday when I travel to Redwood Falls, Minnesota and FARMFEST, an outdoor farm show that I have not attended for several years ...

This week on Samuelson Sez, I am not picking on anyone. Instead, I am saluting – the Women of American Agriculture who play such an important role on farms and ranches across the country to produce ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. I occasionally get e-mails or get involved ...

March 13 through 20 is National Agriculture Week and communities across the U.S. will be holding special events and programs to salute America’s producers of food, fiber and energy. Tuesday, March ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This weekend I will celebrate, with family ...

Most of you know the story. I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, a farm without electricity, running water or a telephone. Before walking a mile to my 8th grade country school I would throw down ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For the past several decades on the Memorial ...

For the past five weeks while I have been lounging around home recovering from heart surgery, driving Gloria, my “Health Warden”, crazy and watching black and white re-runs of Gunsmoke, which, by the ...