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The following is from Alan Guebert, a freelance agricultural journalist from Illinois. The Christmas tree was a scrub cedar hacked from the edge of the woods that bordered the farm. Big-bulbed lights, strung in barber pole fashion, generated almost as much heat as the nearby wood stove. Yellowed Christmas cards, saved over the years and perched like doves in the untrimmed branches, served as ornaments. "I believe this is the prettiest tree Ive ever had," Howard proclaimed as we stood in its glo...

Published: Friday, December 18, 2020 The following is from Alan Guebert, a freelance agricultural journalist from Illinois. In early 1999, I wrote a column about lions and gazelles. More precisely, I wrote a column on how, in the 1990s, American livestock farmers had become "gazelles in the brutal world of global agriculture." What that meant was "Every morning the gazelle awakens knowing it must run faster than the fastest lion to live to see tomorrow" while "the lion awakens knowing it must r...