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...
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....
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 ...
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"You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from a ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Whats the point of increasing my yield if most of it will rot anyway?
For farmers, thats the voice of despairand I often hear my fellow African farmers ...