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 ...

I know it happens in urban America, but since I cover activities in rural America – agriculture and agribusiness, I’m much more aware of it happening in the rural communities. What is it? Volunteer ...

First of all, on Samuelson Sez, full disclosure this week. I am not a nutritionist; I am not a dietician and I certainly am not a medical doctor. I do, however, have some food questions of my own to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the second week in a row on Samuelson Sez, I can use the same opening line, and here it is – Finally, after years of discussion, debate and comment filing, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

“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 ...

I occasionally get e-mails or get involved in conversations with people who like to condemn all corporations or companies, regardless of the industry. I often hear those critics say the company CEO’s ...

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 ...

What is WOTUS? That was the opening question in a recent e-mail I received from a non-farm reader of this column. Then, this question in an another e-mail . . . “Mr. Samuelson, tell me why farmers and ...

There are only two words in my vocabulary that I can use to begin this week’s Samuelson Sez. . . those two words are “Thank You,” to all of you for your concerns, your thoughts, your good wishes and ...