food politics

Four Farmers Project: Golden Opportunity

The plains are aflame with the gaudy spectacle of the sunflower bloom. But beneath it all, a war is going on.
08.15.08
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Four Farmers Project: A Land of High Anxiety

This is a land where you can work hard from sunup to sunset and still have no control over Mother Nature.
08.08.08
food politics

A Fiasco of Olympic Proportions

After months of tangling through red tape, this writer is mysteriously shut out of the Olympics.
08.08.08
food politics

Politics of the Plate: How Sweet It Isn’t

A study reveals the link between fructose and obesity; the Girl Scouts roll out their least healthy treat yet; and more.
08.01.08
food politics

Four Farmers Project: Hail + Drift

Our farmers continue to sleep with one eye open to the nightmare rumble of late-night thunderstorms. Hail falls, pollen drifts, and a wandering bull heads west.
07.31.08
food politics

Four Farmers Project: Dark Horizons

Human civilization has thrived in regions where climate has been steady and benign. But farming on the Great Plains is full of surprises.
07.24.08
food politics

Politics of the Plate: Fighting Words

A new study says that conventional crops trump organic ones. Here’s why you can’t trust the claim.
07.23.08
food politics

Campaign Cookies

Candidates’ wives are high-level political operatives without a lot of free time. So why do we expect them to don aprons and bake?
07.22.08
food politics

Politics of the Plate: Breathing a Little Easier

The EPA finally enacts regulations on five common fumigants that kill virtually every living thing in the soil.
07.18.08
food politics

Four Farmers Project: Black Gold

The Christensons grow food crops for fuel and are proud of it. The way they see it, their corn creates ethanol and still feeds people.
07.17.08
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