An Urban's Rural View

African Swine Fever is forcing China to cull pigs big time during the pigs' eponymous year.

Despite a new federal initiative to improve rural high-speed internet access, ultra-high-speed 5G internet will come way sooner to the cities.

Maybe people don't need to subsist on broccoli and almonds for the planet to be saved.

Despite torrents of criticism and a new Democratic House of Representatives, the proposed relocation of two USDA agencies is not dead. Too bad. Our columnist thinks USDA is moving the wrong agencies.

Talks to end the U.S.-China trade war seem to be making progress, but the most important U.S. demands are still unaddressed -- and meeting them would require China to make big changes in how it runs its economy.

Our fearless forecaster on the weather, trade deals, impeachment and more.

If the stock market's pessimistic outlook for the economy proves right, the Fed will come around.

There's still plenty of room for American meat exporters to make inroads in the Chinese market.

People have been talking about traceability for years, but in the leafy greens business retailers are getting serious about it.

The next few weeks could decide whether the retaliatory tariffs the U.S. and China have imposed on each other ever get lifted.

A modest proposal for taking some of the terror out of the urban-rural divide.

The President thinks the Federal Reserve has "gone crazy" with interest-rate increases. The Fed thinks it's just doing its job.

Despite all the hype, veganism doesn't seem to be growing much. Sales of vegan food are.

If a Wall Street Journal column is correct, the U.S. and China could be imposing high tariffs on each other's goods for a long time to come.

The agreement with Canada has gotten all the attention, but there's been a development on the Japan front, as well.

In which I attempt to explain why the Trump administration's "realignment" of trade policy is misguided.

A think-tank Trump fan tries to ascribe a strategy to the president's trade-war tactics.

How much further will interest rates rise? Take the Federal Reserve chair seriously when he says the policy is gradual increases until rates return to normal.

The pledge is in paragraph one. From there we segue to a rant against misleading food labeling dressed up as a dialogue.

The best way to feed a booming population and save the planet is to grow more food on existing agricultural land.