If you want to learn about free trade see how and why it works, watch the behavior of people who reside near international borders. It will reveal the way we...
What happened when the three female farmers from the United States, Mexico, and Canada walked into a trade negotiation?
It sounds like the start of a bad jok...
Joanna Lidback, member of the Global Farmer Network, was recently recognized as the Emerging Leader for the Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame. In this video, he...
More exciting news to share from the GFN as last week's author of Broadband Access Vital for Rural America and the Economy and Global Farmer Network board membe...
I have to drive 20 miles to see a traffic light. To get to an airport from our farm requires a 2-hour drive to Burlington.
In other words, life on our dairy...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) back in 2001 established June 1 as World Milk Day, "which celebrates the important c...
To BE or not to BE?
That is one of the questions farmers began to face last week, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture published its proposed rules for th...
We come from three different countries and our farms are quite different, but we also speak with one voice: Farmers need NAFTA.
This week, as trade diplomats...
A couple of food fights have broken out in recent weeksand in both cases, some in the media have favored fake news over hard facts in covering controversies th...
The federal government plans to spend $3 million in the coming months to educate the public about food that include GM ingredients.
Buried like a kernel of c...
Joanna Lidback, together with her husband, operates the Farm at Wheeler Mountain, a diversified dairy farm located in Northeast Vermont, where they milk registered Jerseys and Holsteins, manage a grass-based cropping and grazing program and run a Jersey beef direct farm sales business. She was recognized with a Young Jersey Breeder Award in 2016.
Joanna volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network and has testified in the US Congress on the topic of societal benefits of biotechnology. With an Applied Economics and Management degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Babson College, she serves as a business consultant with Yankee Farm Credit.
