Farmer’s share of the grocery dollar shrinks again
Almost everything from the price of a dinner out to the cost to heat one’s home seems to take a bigger chunk out of the wallet lately. According to the Consumer Price Index, the overall cost of goods rose 2.4 percent in January. Even as grocery store prices rose, the farmer’s share of the food dollar, decreased to 11.8 cents for every dollar spent. For many Americans, dollars spent at the grocery store equate directly ...
Starving Coal of Capital Puts the Power Grid at Risk
Winter Storm Fern was a warning. When temperatures plunged into the single digits and heavy snow blanketed much of the country, the electric grid faced a serious stress test. For years, I have cautioned that rising electricity demand and the premature retirement of dependable power plants were putting the U.S. on a collision course with reliability problems and higher utility bills. During Fern, those concerns came into focus. Read the entire op-ed here.
Farming, actually … is all around
There is this movie – either you love it or you hate it. That is how I feel about National Agriculture Month. At the beginning of that movie, though, there is a monologue that is pretty good and ruminates on the meaning of, well, love, but it works for food production, too … if you’re flexible. I used to be an ardent proponent of the underlying theme built into National Ag Month and, by extension, ...
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