The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/08/2008

This year’s corn crop is being planted much later than normal because of cool, wet weather in the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/06/2008

Hans– Glad you posted about the bloated farm bill and how…

• By: Fran Smith
• 04/28/2008

Though a bit late in figuring things out, the steel industry in the European Union and a steel workers’ union have said that the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 04/28/2008

The U.S. Department of Agriculture features a Colombia “tariff ticker” on its website to illustrate in money terms how the pending U.S.-Colombia Free Trade…

• By: Fran Smith
• 04/28/2008

The 2007 Farm Bill, which has been in conference for months as conferees struggled with the threat of an Administration veto over budget-busting funding…

• By: Fran Smith
• 04/23/2008

Well worth reading in today’s Wall Street Journal — former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III’s cogent analysis of why it is critical…