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Guebert: Two years ago, a rampaging pandemic threatened America’s pantries. Today, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens supplies of key ag inputs like fuel and fertilizer while causing deep disruptions to global wheat, corn, and vegetable oil markets. Just how badly, though, remains unknown.

For the second time in two years, a history-making calamity has shown how fragile the world’s efficiency-driven, deeply interdependent food system is.

A weekly agriculture opinion piece by Alan Guebert

Guebert addresses the numbers released Feb. 10, 2022, by the Kansas City Federal Reserve regarding a 20% increase in farm land values.

Guebert: The biggest fight over future biofuel policy won’t be between corn farmers and solar advocates; itll be between Big Ag and Big Oil, two of the oldest, deep-pocketed titans of Capitol Hill lobbying.

One of modern agriculture’s most beloved offspring, ethanol, received a sharp reprimand Feb. 13 from Iowa’s largest newspaper, The Des Moines Register

Guebert: Make no mistake, AFBF — and Big Ag — can’t do enough climate penance in the coming two generations to make up for the climate sins they’ve committed in just this generation. But it’s not alone.

A Farm and Dairy reader responds to a letter to the editor that addressed Alan Guebert's column, "American agriculture needs to deal with climate change."

Guebert addresses two recent reports — one commissioned by the House Ag Committee and the other sponsored by the National Pork Producers Council.

If today’s California is what the rest of America will look like tomorrow, you might want to brace yourself.