Alan Guebert

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Syndicated Columnist at Freelance

Syndicated columnist, The Farm and Food File and Co-Author, The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey

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The completely preventable consequences of woodenheadedness

4 days ago | leadertelegram.com | Alan Guebert

Longtime readers of this weekly effort may recall my affection for the word “woodenheadedness”. It comes from The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman’s 1984 book about “the pervasive presence… of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.”In Tuchman’s telling, history is filled with “the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests despite the availability of feasible alternatives.”kAmu@C 6I2>A=6[ E9:D 4@?EC2C:?6DD–@C 2D D96 @7E6? C676CD E@ :E[ “H@@56?962565?6DD”–:D D66?
The completely preventable consequences of woodenheadedness

4 days ago | farmersadvance.com | Alan Guebert

Longtime readers of this weekly effort may recall my affection for the word "woodenheadedness".
Farm & Food File: The completely preventable consequences of woodenheadedness

4 days ago | telegraphherald.com | Alan Guebert

Longtime readers of this weekly effort might recall my affection for the word “woodenheadedness.” It comes from The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman’s 1984 book about “the pervasive presence … of failure, mismanagement and delusion in government.” In Tuchman’s telling, history is filled with “the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests despite the availability of feasible alternatives.” For example, this contrariness — or as she often refers to it, “woodenheadedness”...
Farm and Food File: The completely preventable consequences of woodenheadedness

5 days ago | beatricedailysun.com | Alan Guebert

Longtime readers of this weekly effort may recall my affection for the word "woodenheadedness." It comes from "The March of Folly," Barbara Tuchman's 1984 book about "the pervasive presence … of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government." In Tuchman's telling, history is filled with "the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests despite the availability of feasible alternatives." For example, this contrariness — or as she often refers to it, "woodenheadedness"...
Farm and Food File: Trade war costs will be more than taxpayer money

6 days ago | farmforum.net | Alan Guebert

The Trump Administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime but it can't exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of farming–with or without ever-changing White House trade policies–will keep the 2025 American ag economy on its heels, say the farm income specialists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Tariffs will only make USDA's bleak income forecast worse.
Trade War Will Be Too Costly for American Farmers, Taxpayers

1 week ago | farmers-exchange.net | Alan Guebert

Michiana's Popular Farm Paper Since 1926 Home > Columns > Articles Trade War Will Be Too Costly for American Farmers, Taxpayers Published: Friday, April 18, 2025 The following is from Alan Guebert, a freelance agricultural journalist from Illinois.
You mess up the creek, you clean up the creek

1 week ago | agrinews-pubs.com | Alan Guebert

Family lore has it that sometime in the pre-refrigeration days of the late 19th century, my forefathers dug a small cave into a steep hillside on their adjacent farms to store several barrels of home-brewed beer. Like the family’s suds, the cave was cool, dark and prized. This being southern Illinois, however, a minor earthquake one day sent the roof of the underground rathskeller onto the barrels of beer and soon their hoppy contents were flowing into the nearby creek.
Trade war costs will be more than taxpayer money

1 week ago | farmanddairy.com | Alan Guebert

The Trump administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime, but it can’t exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of farming — with or without ever-changing White House trade policies — will keep the 2025 American ag economy on its heels, say the farm income specialists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Tariffs will only make USDA’s bleak income forecast worse.
Trade war costs will be more than taxpayer money

1 week ago | stormlake.com | Alan Guebert

The Trump Administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime but it can't exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of farming — with or without ever-changing White House trade policies — will keep the 2025 American ag economy on its heels, say the farm income specialists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Tariffs will only make USDA’s bleak income forecast worse.
Guebert: Trade war costs will be more than taxpayer money

1 week ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Alan Guebert

The Trump Administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime but it can't exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of farming — with or without ever-changing White House trade policies — will keep the 2025 American ag economy on its heels, say the farm income specialists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Tariffs will only make USDA's bleak income forecast worse.

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