It's a foul year for fairs: Around the United States, states and counties have canceled these unique expressions of American culture, due to concern about COVID...
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...
I've lived through tornadoes and hailstorms---but I've never seen anything like the derecho that blasted across Iowa and the Midwest on August 10.
Only in the ...
Has anybody ever wished you a happy World Mosquito Day?
Me neither. Yet the time is now. Each year, we mark World Mosquito Day on August 20. Established in 1897...
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 ...
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...
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, ...
Where's my jet pack?
This rhetorical question is an old joke, usually uttered to express satiric dissatisfaction with how we're not living in the future we onc...
Did you know that our most basic foods could be totally consumed around the world in just a few months?
This is why governments everywhere have labeled agricul...
The reports of the death of dicamba are greatly exaggerated-but farmers and consumers ought to worry about the death of innovation.
Last month a three-judge pan...
