These farmers are hunting profits in unusual places, and each has potential.
It's worth spending some time thinking about how to answer the criticisms of farm subsidies.
An economic historian at Cornell sees the Internet as the economic salvation of small-town America.
A fair-minded food writer finds fault with studies linking potatoes to diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
Donald Trump could still lead the U.S. into trade wars, but he hasn't yet.
A report on an interesting if flawed book on how technology caused some of the problems with today's food and how technology can solve those problems.
The U.S. needs better thinking on how important manufacturing is vis-a-vis other sectors of the economy, and how best to promote it.
If tax reform and infrastructure spending give the economy a big boost, the Federal Reserve will be forced to raise interest rates faster and to higher levels than currently planned.
A memorial service for Marcia Zarley Taylor will be held March 26 in Ames, Iowa.
A growing number of urban Americans' work lives are starting to resemble those of farmers in important respects.
The debate over whether to ban the use of food stamps to buy junk food isn't a simple liberal-versus-conservative one.
Her passing leaves a deep hole in the hearts of all of us whose lives she touched.
Reaching agreement with Japan on trade and currency issues won't be easy for the Trump administration, but the outlook isn't as bleak as it was before the president and Japan's prime minister played golf.
Why Trump's nominee for Secretary of Agriculture may get more Democratic votes than many of the president's other nominees.
Will three agribusiness mega-mergers win regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe?
Taking the new president both seriously and literally.
Faced with a strong dollar that was discouraging exports and costing jobs, Richard Nixon did something startlingly unconventional. Donald Trump may be following in Nixon's footsteps.
The president-elect has named advisers with conflicting views on trade policy.
It's the season for musings on the nature of change.