LWV UMRR ILO to host Alan Guebert December 6th
The LWV Upper Mississippi River Region Inter-League Organization is hosting nationally recognized agricultural journalist Alan Guebert, 1:00-2:30 pm, Monday, December 6, via ZOOM. His topic will be "How Federal Farm Policy Ended Up Polluting Our Waters and Creating the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico."
Guebert was raised on a 720-acre, 100-cow dairy farm in southern Illinois. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1980, he served as an associate editor at Professional Farmers of America in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Successful Farming magazine in Des Moines. Later he spent eight years as a contributing editor for Farm Journal magazine of Philadelphia.
In 1993, Guebert began the Farm and Food File, a weekly newspaper column on the farm and food policy and politics. Twenty-eight years and 1 million words later, the Farm and Food File continues to be published weekly in 26 states and two Canadian provinces. Guebert currently lives in Madison, WI, with his spouse, the lovely Catherine. They have two children and three grandchildren.
