By John Phipps

• Perspective: His PGR Is Great, but Look at His PA
  
  02/08/2012
  John Phipps suggests some new statistics to help identify key factors in our increasingly complex business environment.
• Perspective: The Peculiar Rules of Our Game
  
  01/09/2012
  One summer, we hosted a student worker from France on our farm. It was a wonderful experience.
• Perspective: I'm Not So Sure About Uncertainty
  
  11/29/2011
  The proposed fixes to our economy are manifold and wildly different, and could have significant impact even for our booming sector.
• Perspective: Black Swans, the Newest Livestock Trend
  
  11/16/2011
  Despite the serendipitous fortune falling on many of us, black swan events still take a toll.
• Perspective: Losing Ground
  
  11/02/2011
  I realized that my habit of always looking to grow the farm had become an emotional fixation that resists reason.
• Perspective: Is This the Right Fight at the Right Time?
  
  10/05/2011
  If we can sell the idea of looming regulatory overreach, we might be able to sweep away some other irritations in the process.
• Perspective: Indian Summer for Small Farms
  
  08/31/2011
  Profits that would have been ridiculed as fantasy five years ago are granting small operations a chance for a golden autumn.
• Perspective: A Declaration of Interdependence
  
  07/27/2011
  We love to be the ones others are dependent on, and we love even more to hear it.
• Perspective: Winner-Take-All Agriculture
  
  04/06/2011
  We struggle to grasp that while capitalism delivers many economic benefits efficiently, without constraint it often subverts cultural values.
• Perspective: The Decline and Fall of Fixing
  
  03/08/2011
  There may be a watershed in farmer careers where investment in infrastructure seems dubious.