County Fairs Another COVID-19 Casualty? Not in Northern Vermont!
It's a foul year for fairs: Around the United States, states and counties have canceled these unique expressions of American culture, due to concern about COVID...
Technology
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...
Farming Through Risk
I've lived through tornadoes and hailstorms---but I've never seen anything like the derecho that blasted across Iowa and the Midwest on August 10.
Only in the ...
Supporting Science to Defeat Permanent Pandemics With Mosquito Control
Has anybody ever wished you a happy World Mosquito Day?
Me neither. Yet the time is now. Each year, we mark World Mosquito Day on August 20. Established in 1897...
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 ...
To Feed a Nation, Cuba Opens the Door to GM Technology
Cuba has some of the best soil I've ever seen. I'd love to farm in ground that good.
I just wouldn't want to live on that oppressed island.
Cuba may be blesse...
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, ...
Modern Technology is a Sustainability Tool for Every Farmer
Where's my jet pack?
This rhetorical question is an old joke, usually uttered to express satiric dissatisfaction with how we're not living in the future we onc...
Validation of Agriculture as an Essential and Sustainable Industry
Did you know that our most basic foods could be totally consumed around the world in just a few months?
This is why governments everywhere have labeled agricul...
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...