2018 Global Farmer Roundtable – Bill Crabtree from Australia
The 2018 Global Farmer Roundtable is scheduled for Oct 16-17 in Des Moines, Iowa - coinciding with the week of the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue and Interna...
Farmer Views
India: GFN Farmer’s Daughter and PhD Student
Aman Mann is preparing the start a PhD program with her research focused on Climate Change and Agricultural Sustainability. She is the daughter of a farmer, Gur...
GFN Farm Tour: Southern New Zealand
Over the centuries farming has never been an easy way to make a living. Farmers and their families face many challenges to their fields and livestock...
UK Farmer Provides Opportunities “Where Learning Comes To Life”
Thrales End Farm is just about 20 miles north of London. It is where Ian Pigott the 2014 Kleckner Award recipient and his family have farmed for quite some tim...
View from a Canadian Farmer: Does Glyphosate Cause Cancer?
Glyphosate and cancer. This is something we are hearing so much about, seemingly all of the sudden, with major stories breaking in the last week. Just last Frid...
Sustainable Farming Views From Karnataka, India
After focusing on Global Farmer Network members' thoughts about trade recently, this week we'll return to views on sustainability - and specifically f...
Honest Views About Trade From Ukraine
Kornelius 'Kees' Huizinga is a Dutch transplant who has been farming in Ukraine since 2003, a country often referred to as the "bread basket of Europe". Kees p...
Trade agreements fundamental for Uruguay
Gabriel Carballal attended the Global Farmer Roundtable in 2012 and farms in Uruguay. The South American nation sits along Atlantic Ocean and shares borders wi...
Global Trade Imperative for Island Nation
New Zealand's landscape was used in the filming of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie trilogies for a reason – the natural scenery is stunning. That la...
Trade Critical for US Beef Producers
Beef exports from the United States are doing well recently (see article) - but in the current political atmosphere of 2018 there's a sense of unpredictability ...