Farm policy reaches every grocery cart

The partisan primary elections are less than a month away, do you know who you are voting for? Candidates have been busy over the last few months attending dairy breakfasts, park concerts, party events, parades and anywhere else they can find potential voters to try and sway to support them. This year’s election season is even more busy than normal with wide open races for the 7th Congression...

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreement with John Deere is good news for farmers and is a boost for consumers. The proposed agreement was completed July 8 by the FTC and the attorneys general of Illinois, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It will require Deere to make repair software, diagnostic tools and technical resources available to farmers and independent repair providers...

Putting out a community newspaper is a lot like running a relay race. It starts each week, with the staff at putting in long hours covering meetings, sports and events and sitting down with residents and business owners to help share their stories. Staff then take those stories and photographs and lay out the pages. They are human beings, not computer algorithms, making choices about what...