New rules to limit pushing unhealthy foods in shools
February 25, 2014
Even the scoreboards in high school gyms eventually will have to promote good health. Moving beyond the lunch line, new rules that will be proposed
Serious farm problems in Wisconsin
February 23, 2014
Wisconsin farmers stopped working hundreds of thousands of acres during five years of heavy farm closures that a federal report described Thursday as among the
Shutdown threatens women, infants and children nutrition program
October 4, 2013
Jacob Quick is a fat and happy 4-month-old with a big and expensive appetite. Like millions of other poor women, Jacob’s mother relies on the
The great Cuban egg bust
December 25, 2010
A Cuban-American father and daughter face a possible jail term or hefty fines after their attempt to bring 72 unhatched pigeon eggs from Cuba to
Rush to judgment: Vilsack ignored facts in Sherrod debacle
October 8, 2010
Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod pleaded with officials to hear her out after she was ousted from the USDA during a racial firestorm in
Barack ‘can’t do anything right’ Obama
July 22, 2010
There is so much blame to go around in the incredible FUBAR* surrounding the knee-jerk firing of USDA employee Shirley Sherrod that we need a
On second thought…
July 21, 2010
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he will reconsider the department’s decision to oust a black employee over racially tinged remarks after learning more about