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...
Infrastructure: Transportation & Broadband
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...
Resilient Agriculture
COVID-19 has left a lasting impact. For farmers in Zimbabwe and across Africa, the business of food production and distribution never has seemed more difficult....
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 ...
What if 'Take it to the Farmer' Meant the Government too
Photo credit: White House/Eisenhower Presidential Library
"You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from a ...
Broadband Access Vital for Rural America and the Economy
I have to drive 20 miles to see a traffic light. To get to an airport from our farm requires a 2-hour drive to Burlington.
In other words, life on our dairy...
Farming Through Extreme Climate Events Is A Global Challenge
We live on opposite sides of the world and weve never met in personbut as farmers who have confronted major natural disasters this month, we have a lot in com...
Improved Infrastructure is a Competitive Advantage
Ive always known that moving food from farm to fork depends on excellent infrastructurebut until about fifteen years ago, I took a lot of it for granted.
I...
Panama Canal: Even More Wonderful (and Important) Modern World Wonder
The American Society of Civil Engineers has called it one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern Worldand this summer, the Panama Canal became even more wonderfu...
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Video: Dead Harvest
Chronicles the lack of farm water in California's CentralValley....