Agricultural research needs to get out of the lab and into the field.
That’s the takeaway point from my recent attendance at a conference in Ethiopia.
Spo...
I never expected to become a catfish farmer, though I’m not all surprised that I wound up in agriculture. I’ve always been around farms—so it was natural that I...
Today is winter solstice—the darkest day of the year.
Here in southeast Saskatchewan, where my family farms, we’ll see about eight hours of daylight. The sun...
The majority of Americans know very little about genetically modified food. They’ll even tell you so: In a poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center last year,...
As a child, I would collect dry cattle dung on the outskirts of town. My family burned it to cook food and keep warm. For protein, we often ate locusts. They’re...
When I decided to become a farmer in Zimbabwe, people viewed that as an unusual decision.
Men dominated agriculture in Africa, especially older men—and here ...
Their eyes tell their sad stories as ghostly white irises give way to vacant stares. We can look at them but they can’t look back at us. They’ve gone blind beca...
I’m coming to America.
Actually, I’ve already arrived—I got here in the middle of August—and I’ve come twice before, leaving my farm in Zimbabwe and flying a...
*EDITOR'S NOTE: please see breaking news from Kenya as reported Sept 1.
"In a decision hailed as the first of its kind for Africa, Kenya’s Supreme Court on F...
India has just taken a significant step forward with the tiny mustard seed.
This new opportunity could deliver a major benefit to me and other Indian farmers...
