If there's one thing I'm not, it's a perfectionist. I prefer the term "perfectly imperfect," because at the most, it's an accurate statement, and, at the least, it sounds good.

One of the most common pieces of advice given to farmers during times of tight profit margins is to diversify their operations.

As a guy who has studied and written about commodity markets a long time, something I had to come to terms with years ago is the joy of publicly being wrong now and then.

Approaching the 2019 harvest season, conditions would seem to favor a pretty benign weather pattern.

It has been a wild year. Flooding and unplanted crops, trade disputes, African swine flu.

I recently attended a conference in Minneapolis of international ag journalists.

It seems there is always more to do on our farm. We have sheep to sort and fields to irrigate; fences to fix or cows to gather. Rarely do we have any down time. It's tempting to blow and go, put your head down and just keep moving. That's the way things are usually...