US East Coast Hazelnuts A Breeding Triumph
I’m a failed hazelnut farmer. Then again, so is every other farmer who has tried to grow hazelnuts in New Jersey. In fact, almost nobody east of the Rockies ...
Agricultural Technology
European Bureaucrats Deny EU Farmers Access to Innovative Technology
Imagine trying to survive in the modern world with one of those old mobile phones that featured a stubby antenna, push-button dialing, and an LCD display. Yo...
On the Brink of Innovative Ag Technology Acceptance: A Kenyan Farmer’s Perspective
Farmers have good years and bad years. Here in Kenya, however, the good years never have seemed quite as good as they should be and the bad years have felt wors...
The Consequences When Ag Technology is Withheld: A Farmer’s Perspective
How much would your life change if suddenly the government were to ban mobile phones? It would alter everything, from how you work to how you communicate with ...
India’s Supreme Court Must Protect Intellectual Property Rights
As people of the land, farmers understand the value of property rights. As a farmer in India, traditional property rights are intact and at the center of our so...
Crop Biotech 3.0: A Farmer’s Perspective
Here in New Zealand, we did not participate in the GE Gene Revolution. Farmers like me see an advantage in making sure that we do not miss the next one. You...
Learning By Doing Helps Indian Agriculture Thrive
Farmers must educate each other: That’s the best way we can learn to thrive, adopting the new technologies and sustainable practices that both conserve resource...
A Farmer Reacts: Paul Temple – United Kingdom
In early January of this year, GFN member Paul Temple spoke at The Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) the prestigious event held annually at Oxford University in t...
Dueling Visions of Tomorrow’s World
History is full of great rivalries: Athens versus Sparta, Lincoln versus Douglas, even the Roadrunner versus Wile E. Coyote. Author Charles C. Mann describes...
Technology is Getting CRISPR
The future of farming just got a lot brighter. On March 28, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that his department won’t add a new layer of...