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...
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&...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...