A highly invasive water weed is turning the rivers and ponds of India green—but local farmers have discovered a science-based solution that can restore them to...
India is gasping for breath—and farmers are receiving an unfair amount of the blame.
The Associated Press recently painted a picture of the problem in New Delh...
The loud and angry debates over crop-protection products in Europe can give the false impression that farmers like me are prone to over-use chemicals on what we...
I think I've met the world's worst weed.
Tall waterhemp takes no prisoners. It is big, prolific, and tough to kill.
It can grow as high as eight feet. A singl...
As I travel around Africa and talk to its farmers, I've witnessed the dangers of food insecurity up close---and I think I've discovered a way to discuss the pro...
At the very moment when Kenya is confirming itself as a GMO success story, our neighbor to the south and fellow East African Community member-state has turned i...
The strangest thing about Mexico's war on crop-protection tools is the assumption that farmers like me don't care what we spray on our fields.
Of course we care...
I have my plant doctor in my pocket.
That's how I think about my mobile phone, ever since I discovered an app that harnesses the power of artificial intelligen...
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words.
A video of my farm on social media has attracted more than 50,000 views---and counting.
It uses the incredible power...
The swarm of locusts was so large, it blackened the sky in the middle of the day.
If we hadn't known that this plague of pests was coming to attack our farms, ...