CIMMYT and a Farmer
Global food prices were already increasing when the world’s wheat supply came under extra pressure, due to Russia’s war on Ukraine. We don’t know whether the fa...
Innovations: Agricultural Technology
The Four M’s of Precision Agriculture
M&M’s may be the world’s most popular candy. Just about everybody enjoys eating these colorful candy-coated chocolates, according to surveys.
I like M&...
A Fish Story: Technology in Aquaculture Feeds People And Protects the Environment
Let me tell you a fish story—or rather, a fish-farming story.
Unlike some fish stories, this fish-farming story is all true, and it reveals how technology can ...
When Pigs Fly and Lives are Saved
I used to worry that the foes of modern farming would end their fight against GM technology only when pigs would grow wings and take flight.
That hasn’t happen...
Laser Focused on Soil Health
For farmers, nothing is more important than the soil and its health. Our crops are only as healthy as what they grow in. I’m happy to report that the soil on ou...
The Power of Local Solutions to Address Global Challenges
World leaders are spending a lot of time together lately.
At the Group of 20 meeting in Rome last weekend, officials from the wealthiest countries talked about...
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...
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...