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...
Barriers & Market Access
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...
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 ...
Science-based, Free-flowing Trade Benefits the World
The COVID-19 pandemic has built new barriers to business, travel, and even family gatherings. Never in living history has society been so shut down. Fortunately...
Resilient Agriculture Requires Trade Barriers be Removed
The average person in Uganda eats 660 pounds of bananas each year.
That's a lot of bananas: It's at least 50 percent more than the weight of a full-grown male ...
Adaptive Agriculture During a Global Pandemic
At a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs, many farmers are feeling blessed to have work. But that doesn't mean that the coronavirus hasn't hur...
A Phase One US - China Trade Agreement Reality Check
Will the coronavirus outbreak unravel President Trumps new trade deal with China?
The export boom from that trade deal will take longer because of the...
Celebrating Twenty Years of Agvocacy
Let me tell you a story about how putting words into action transitioned into a global movement.
Twenty years ago this week, five Iowa farmers were worried abo...
Pork exports to China surge; export value to Mexico rebounds
While the surge in pork shipments to China will capture most of the headlines this month, it is equally encouraging to see export value to Mexico make such a st...
A Ratified USMCA Would be a Christmas Gift of Stability
Everybody likes Christmas presents, and the report on Tuesday that President Trump and congressional leaders have struck a deal on a North American trade agreem...