Climate Smart Agriculture is a Sustainability Solution
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...
Crop Protection: Disease, Pests
Tall Waterhemp Takes No Prisoners!
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...
The Truth Can Set Africa Free and Defeat Food Insecurity
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...
Tanzania's Regrettable Ag Technology Decision
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...
Mexico's Self-Defeating War on Safe Technologies
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...
AI Technology Puts a Plant Doctor in Every Pocket
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...
Seeing is Believing: Modern Technology Delivers Change
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 ...
Innovative Technology Protects Crops, Farmers and Our Future
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, ...
Supporting Science and Innovation are the Best Defense
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...
The European Green Deal is a Bad Deal
The European Commission has a plan to eliminate modern farming in Europe.
The details emerged last month, as part of a "European Green Deal" announced late ...