Freedom to be Food Secure
The Soviet Union was about seven decades old when it collapsed in 1991. Its precise lifespan depends on whether you mark its birth by the Russian Revolution in ...
John Rigolizzo, Jr.
Infrastructure Vitality is a Choice
The surprise shutdown of America's largest fuel pipeline warns us about the importance of infrastructure—and what happens when we neglect it.
In the last few d...
A Story of Resilient Seeds
Researchers in Israel are giving a new meaning to the term "expiration date."
They've taken date-palm seeds found while excavating ancient sites in the Judean w...
To Feed a Nation, Cuba Opens the Door to GM Technology
Cuba has some of the best soil I've ever seen. I'd love to farm in ground that good.
I just wouldn't want to live on that oppressed island.
Cuba may be blesse...
Celebrating the Freedom to Trade
I once touched the Liberty Bell.
It was a long time ago: I was seven or eight years old and my mother had taken me to Philadelphia to see the sights. Although ...
Farmers Get it Done Every Day
When I was a young farmer, a customer visited my family?s stand at a farmer?s market in New Jersey, where we sold tomatoes.
This was back when tomatoes went...
Science is Rescuing the Chestnut Tree
When we talk about an oldchestnut, we usually mean a familiar storysometimes one thatsbeen told so often thatithas become stale, but also possibly one t...
New Year New Congress New Opportunity to Support Trade
Congress should make a New Years resolution to support free trade in 2019.
A numberofpundits have assumed thatas new leaderstakeformal control of the...
US East Coast Hazelnuts A Breeding Triumph
Im a failed hazelnut farmer.
Then again, so is every other farmer who has tried to grow hazelnuts in New Jersey. In fact, almost nobody east of the Rockies ...
Dueling Visions of Tomorrows World
History is full of great rivalries: Athens versus Sparta, Lincoln versus Douglas, even the Roadrunner versus Wile E. Coyote.
Author Charles C. Mann describes...
John Rigolizzo, Jr.
Farmer, New Jersey, USA
John Rigolizzo, Jr. is a fifth generation farmer, previously raising 1,400 acres of fresh vegetables and field corn in southern New Jersey. The family farm now raises 70 acres of field corn and John advises local farmers on growing and marketing retail vegetables. John volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network. John volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network and has provided leadership to the Farmland Preservation Board, the Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey and New Jersey Tomato Council. As a former New Jersey Farm Bureau President, his interest and long-time support of free trade was supported by his involvement in 11 international trade missions and engagement in World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle and Geneva.