Articles by Ed Maixner

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - The expanding concept of “rural infrastructure” was front and center Tuesday when the Farm Foundation gathered a panel of speakers from the agriculture, transportation and equipment sector.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- How to expand the sliver of public and private agricultural spending that goes to research and innovation?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2017 – Call it market equilibrium or stability. Call it nap time in the Heartland’s farmland market. But across the Corn Belt, the Great Lake States and Northern Plains the land market is surely not the torrid trading pit it was just a few years ago.

Californians are steadily ratcheting up their defenses against a potentially ruinous invasion of citrus greening disease.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - The 2017 economic performance for agriculture in the American Heartland is being affected by uncertain and volatile commodity markets and weather, to be sure, but it may wrap up little changed from 2016 overall.

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2017 - To hear advocates of “Food Freedom” or “Food Sovereignty,” tell it, a full-blown nationwide pushback against food-safety regulation is upon us.

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 -Despite record world wheat production plus record world stocks projected for 2018, North American hard red spring wheat (HRSW) growers find themselves in the catbird seat.

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 - States are leaving the U.S. minimum wage rate in the dust as they lift their own wage floors, lock in further hikes across the next several years and hit a lot of farm and ranch operating budgets in the process.