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Guebert: A recent reshuffle inside FDA food safety programs ignited intraoffice turf fights over jurisdiction and authority, again grinding agency gears already slipping after years of neglect and inactivity. Lobbying by Big Food through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) didn’t help, either.

Guebert discusses Helena Bottemiller Evichs April 8 exposé about the Food and Drug Administrations failures in regulating food.

Guebert: As public awareness of private water use grows, so does the pressure on how local, state, and federal governments allocate today’s dwindling supplies.

Alan Guebert discusses the usage of groundwater by farmers and ranchers and entering the 2022 growing season with "abnormal" dryness or worse.

Guebert: We’re not going to run out of food. The real threat is that we’ll run out of markets we can trust.

Contrary to the woeful baying by Big Agbiz, the United States — and any nation with enough money — will not run out of food this year.

Conference at the Yale University Law School discusses "Reforming Americas Retail Food Markets" on March 12, 2022.

Guebert: U.S. farmers and farm groups have spent decades turning ethanol into ag’s most sacred cow and it will take years before that cow is put out to pasture. That means ethanol has more than enough rural and political cover to withstand today’s ongoing fierce debate over carbon pipelines.

American farmers are long familiar with acre wars. This is a showdown over how many acres of corn, soybeans, cotton, and wheat farmers will plant.

Guebert: Today, war is ripping through integrated markets from Odessa to Omaha. No tax cuts, fewer environmental rules, more deregulation or less antitrust enforcement will lower crude oil prices or cut U.S. potash costs.