The Challenging Experiment of Planting Season 2022 in Ukraine
On my farm in Ukraine, we are embarking on a challenging experiment: We’re going to see how much food we can grow in the most overwhelming conditions imaginable...
Trade
In a World of Conflict, Farmers Collaborate to Grow More Food
In a world of fierce competition, agriculture is very often about collaboration. Neighbors help neighbors. Co-ops join resources for mutual benefit. Commodity g...
Tariff “Policy Shock” Is Real and Destructive
The pre-pandemic trade wars finally have a price tag for American agriculture: $27 billion.
That’s how much export income we lost from the middle of 2018 to th...
The World Needs Trade Leadership Now
Remember the World Trade Organization?
Its members were scheduled to gather in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago, in what Reuters called “a meeting widely seen...
Thankful for the Mentorship of Clayton Yeutter
Thirty-five years ago, around Thanksgiving, Clayton Yeutter was focused on using American trade laws to negotiate on behalf of the United States for the Urugua...
The Government of Kenya Should Allow Imports of GM Soya Beans
When nations wage trade wars, farmers and consumers always lose---and Zambia is proving it all over again with a new and harmful export ban.
The landlocked Afr...
The Handshake
I haven't shaken the hand of a stranger, or a friend for that matter, in more than a year, and neither have a lot of other Canadians.
This may not seem like a ...
Freedom to be Food Secure
The Soviet Union was about seven decades old when it collapsed in 1991. Its precise lifespan depends on whether you mark its birth by the Russian Revolution in ...
Infrastructure Vitality is a Choice
The surprise shutdown of America's largest fuel pipeline warns us about the importance of infrastructure—and what happens when we neglect it.
In the last few d...
The Chaos Created When Infrastructure Gets Stuck
I know what it's like to get a big piece of machinery unstuck: We have had to use a track hoe to pull a combine from a muddy field, and I've seen up close how a...