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...
John Rigolizzo, Jr.
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...
Celebrating a Season of Abundance and Choice
Not many people around the world eat local at Christmas.
At least nobody does in New Jersey, where I live and farmand where snow commonly covers the field...
Trade as a Pathway to Cuba Libre
Were all for Cuba Librea free Cuba that allows its people to elect their government, speak their mind, and own their property.
The question is how to get...
Enjoy Your Fruits and Vegetables With Confidence
The Environmental Working Group made a marketing mistake when it picked the name for its annual list of least-favorite foods: The Dirty Dozen. At least for me...
John Rigolizzo, Jr.
Farmer, New Jersey, USA
John Rigolizzo, Jr. is a fifth generation farmer, raising fresh vegetables and field corn in southern New Jersey. The family farm provides products to retail and wholesale markets. John volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network and has provided leadership to 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.