We Must Learn From Sri Lanka’s Man-Made Organic Agriculture Disaster
Sri Lanka has partially reversed a hasty decision to experiment with farming, but the country and its citizens are already paying for this bad mistake in the fo...
Innovations: Agricultural Technology
Controlling Weeds Requires Balance and Technology Helps
Whether you garden, farm or do both, weeds are a perennial problem, and my Wisconsin garden and farm fields are no exception.
Controlling weeds is all about ba...
"Golden" Technology to Solve a Global Health Problem
The world is full of woe: We're still suffering from the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; economic uncertainty and political anxiety dominate the hea...
Ignorance is Taking Away Choice
Cathie Martin has a good way of describing the critics of GMOs. She calls them "the W.W.W.s." She doesn't mean the World Wide Web, but rather the Well, the Weal...
Weather Stations and Appropriate Farm Machinery for African Farmers Needed
Political and business leaders along with individuals focused on our global food system gathered in Rome and virtually this week for the Food Systems Summit spo...
Innovation and Technology in Agriculture Has No Boundaries
Access to technology has made me a better farmer---and my decades-long experience with it has changed how I think about growing food.
I've learned that there...
Agroecology as a Choice, Not Coercion
Meet the world's new farming buzzword: "agroecology."
I'd try to define it, but "agroecology" is one of those slippery terms whose meaning shifts depending on ...
Accepting the Musk XPRIZE Carbon Challenge on Behalf of the World's Farmers
The first XPrize reached for the stars. What if the solution to the latest one lies in the soil beneath our feet?
In January, entrepreneur Elon Musk promised in...
Using Innovative Agriculture to Conserve Biodiversity
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are made by accident.
We weren't specifically looking for a new species of bee on our family farm in Brazil---but we found o...
Technology in Water Usage Will Help Us Do More With Less
Water shortages threaten to devastate India's food security, driving down winter harvests by 20 percent nationwide and by as much as 68 percent in key regions, ...