Controlling Food Borne Disease
Nothing can change these terrible facts and figures. Families who lost loved ones are hurting and the sick are suffering through a painful, gut-wrenching i...
John Rigolizzo, Jr.
When Food is Short, Danger Lies Ahead
Rebellion? Insurrection? Riots?
It’s hard to know exactly what constitutes “major political uprisings,” but the fact that 51 percent ...
Innovative Greening of America
Can biotechnology save the American chestnut tree? The early evidence is encouraging--but success will require scientific ingenuity as well as the public&r...
Litigating in Favor of Weeds
A number of years ago, I tried to farm sugar beets here in New Jersey. They’re not a big crop in my state, but a few of us decided to put them to ...
Fighting Obesity
Alas, the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity took a more earnest approach. Last week, at an event hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, it issued a ...
Food Safety 101
Let me offer an unequivocal answer: No.
Never in human history has it been safer to eat food than today. We know more about how to grow healthy food. We als...
The Perfect Vegetable: Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep
That may have been the logic behind the European Union’s regulations on the appearance of fruits and vegetables, without regard to their safety or taste.
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Searching for the Great Pumpkin
Thad Starr took the top prize at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off earlier this month in California: His winning entry, placed on a scale with th...
Intelligent Activism
For Queensland farmer Jeff Bidstrup, kangaroos arent cute marsupials that seem ready-made for Animal Planet documentaries. To him, theyre big-time pests.
A...
TPA Truce Needed
Yet heres an issue that should unite them all, no matter what their party or ideology: The next president should have Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).Thats be...
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.