By Dave Carter
The Lufthansa advertisement in the Newsweek magazine delivered to my house on September 11 was very simple.
The photograph in the ad placed the viewer on the streets of a major city, looking upward through a maze of high-rise buildings to a jet plane soaring overhead. It was designed to convey a message of […]

By Dave Carter
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Everything just changed.
It’s time we change just about everything. Including food policy.
A delegation of farmers and ranchers from the Rocky Mountain region were in the Capitol complex lobbying on long-term farm policy this week when the first reports came in that an airliner had plunged into one of the towers of the […]

By Dave Carter
What is the role of the federal Farm Bill in guiding the structure of American agriculture anyway?
Opponents of federal farm programs have argued for decades that Uncle Sam had no legitimate role in meddling in the farm marketplace. Eliminate farm programs, they claimed, and let the efficient farmers survive.
In the 1963 book, Farms […]

By William Lee-Ashley
We all know the old adage about a free lunch . . . that there is no such thing. The question is, do we dare say the same of the free market?
In school I was told how the operation of the free market, unhindered by monopolies or government regulation, was the driving force […]

By Dave Carter
Ever since the advent of the automobile, parents have used car keys as a powerful disciplinary tool with their teenagers – keys to the family car are regularly yanked when kids fail to prove their maturity.
It is time to apply that same principle to international trade agreements.
More than a decade ago, President Bush, […]

By Dave Carter
President
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
I never knew that family farmers and ranchers had so many friends.
Just look around. It seems as if every major big business organization is engaged in some type of public hand wringing about the future of the family farm and ranch. Conservative think tanks, chambers of commerce…everywhere you turn these […]