Dennis Sun
Latest from Dennis Sun
Dennis Sun: The Post Office is Not Listening
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "The outgoing postmaster general wants DOGE to examine the 'unfunded mandates imposed on USPS by Congress,' as he calls them. Some of these are delivering mail six days a week and maintaining rural post offices. I believe those are services vital to rural America."
Dennis SunMarch 21, 2025
Dennis Sun: The Volatile Egg Industry
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "With egg prices at a record high and rising, multiple management methods are at work to try to solve the issue of low egg supplies. However, high egg prices are not entirely due to highly pathogenic avian influenza."
Dennis SunMarch 14, 2025
Dennis Sun: The World Has Gotten Smaller
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "America needs to stop accepting beef from Paraguay as it doesn’t have strict health regulations over its cattle. Ranchers are worried about imported meat bringing in disease, especially foot and mouth disease."
Dennis SunMarch 07, 2025
Dennis Sun: Too Many Ag Cuts May Hurt Food Security
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Agriculture welcomes a more efficient government, but we are also worried tariffs and layoffs may cause extreme pain. I just hope Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins realize their actions affect food security."
Dennis SunFebruary 28, 2025
Dennis Sun: Beef is Still King
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Despite the rising price of beef, consumers have not backed away from purchasing it. I believe the main reason for this is because of the high quality of beef products on grocery store shelves."
Dennis SunFebruary 21, 2025
Dennis Sun: Some Positives Of Agriculture
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "There are always individuals or groups who want to stop livestock grazing and/or keep everyone from eating meat. It has been going on for years, and I realize it will most likely never stop."
Dennis SunFebruary 15, 2025
Dennis Sun: Wyoming’s Outdoor Recreation Needs Managed
With many people not respecting private property, outdoor recreation can be a large problem. Side-by-side ATVs, four-wheelers and other off-roading vehicles can cause a lot of damage to roads and other resources, especially waterways.
Dennis SunFebruary 07, 2025
Dennis Sun: The High Price of Eggs
For the last two years, I, along with everyone else, understood the pandemic and inflation were two reasons for the high price of groceries. But, when egg prices started rising even more last fall, I realized there were more issues bringing on the rising prices.
Dennis SunFebruary 01, 2025
Dennis Sun: Cattle and Beef Prices Expected to Rise
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Today, everything we read about cattle and beef say prices are going up. This can be attributed to the short supply of cattle and the high demand of consumers, both in America and around the world. Everyone wants American beef."
Dennis SunJanuary 24, 2025
Dennis Sun: The Needs of Agriculture
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "I’m not sure how the new administration’s policies will shake out, but I hope some of the current barriers and restrictions will go away and make room for better policies."
Dennis SunJanuary 17, 2025
Dennis Sun: With Greenhouse Gases, Nothing is Safe
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Americans are fed up with the climate change talk and people telling us what to eat and not to eat. When people go to the store and buy meat, milk and eggs, no one is thinking about climate change."
Dennis SunJanuary 10, 2025
Dennis Sun: It's All About Food Security
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "The public needs to understand ranchers pay for their livestock to graze public lands, whereas sportsmen and recreationists use the lands for free."
Dennis SunJanuary 03, 2025
Dennis Sun: What Will Happen To Agriculture In 2025?
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "I sure hope they don’t raise the debt limit again, but instead start limiting the debt. Currently, it takes $1 trillion to service the debt every four months. Luckily, we will have a president who will make America great again."
Dennis SunDecember 27, 2024
Dennis Sun: A Cowboy’s Christmas Prayer
I ain’t much good at prayin,’ and you may not know me, Lord – for I ain’t much seen in churches, where they preach Thy Holy Word.
Dennis SunDecember 21, 2024
Dennis Sun: Farm Bill Needs To Get Passed
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "If Congress fails to pass the farm bill by Jan. 1, 2025, dairy prices, corn, cotton, rice and wheat would end up with price supports much higher than 2024 market prices."
Dennis SunDecember 14, 2024
Dennis Sun: Keeping Consumers Informed
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "People always ask me when the price of beef will come down. I have to tell them prices are currently not high – they reflect what beef is worth at this time. And then I tell them why this is so."
Dennis SunDecember 06, 2024
Dennis Sun: Humans Are Part Of The Ecosystem
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "California outlawed hunting of mountain lions in 1990, and in the 34 years since, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has had to kill many more lions every year than were killed when permitted hunting was a policy."
Dennis SunNovember 29, 2024
Dennis Sun: Against The West
President-Elect Donald Trump has campaigned to bring the DOI and BLM back under commonsense management that will listen to experts in Western states. I can’t wait.
Dennis SunNovember 22, 2024
Dennis Sun: The Future Of U.S. Meat In International Markets
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "The U.S. Meat Export Federation held its annual strategic planning conference in Tucson. The first topic discussed was the analysis of the election, potential impacts on agriculture policy and international trade and how it will reflect on beef and other meat."
Dennis SunNovember 15, 2024
Dennis Sun: Cows Rule
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Usually when someone attacks the beef industry, one doesn’t have to look far to realize there are some animal rights activist cow haters involved. It’s a lot like politics – truth and science be damned, say anything you want and hopefully it sticks on the wall."
Dennis SunNovember 08, 2024
Dennis Sun: The New Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "If one looks at the makeup of the guidelines committee, they seem to be younger people who work at universities with PhDs. I would guess they all grew up in cities and don’t know how to garden. Their food and vegetables come in a box once a week."
Dennis SunNovember 01, 2024