An Urban's Rural View

In response to a reader's query about the future of farming, we invite other readers to weigh in.

Imposing punitive tariffs on China, and getting punitive tariffs imposed on us in return, will inflict pain on the U.S. economy and especially on farmers and ranchers.

President Donald Trump hopes to sign a trade deal with Japan while he's in Tokyo in late May. It's hard to see how that could happen.

In which we explain why campaigning for laws banning plant-based products from being called "meat" is not the optimal strategy for cattle raisers.

After acquiring Monsanto, Bayer has been hit with big jury awards based on evidence the company thought was weak.

Thankfully, the Federal Reserve hasn't caved to presidential pressure on interest-rate policy. But has it caved to the financial markets?

People have always liked living next to water, even though they tempt fate by doing so.

As hard it is to discern how the U.S.-China trade war will end, the coming U.S.-EU trade war is in some ways even murkier.

Financial markets are betting the Federal Reserve's next interest-rate move will be a cut. They may end up being right, but there are no guarantees.

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.