Advocating for Agriculture On A Changing Planet
My father with a group of farmers worried about soils in Argentina stopped centuries of unintentional agricultural degradation by changing the way they farmed t...
Agriculture
Video – Daniel Otunge: Africa Needs Biotech Crops
Published on May 17, 2016 Daniel Otunge, coordinator of the Open Forum on Agricultural Technology, discusses the critical need for biotechnology and innovati...
Video: Global Farmer Roundtable
Previous attendees of the Global Farmer Roundtable talk about why the event is important for them and for agriculture. Learn more here - What is the Global F...
Ag biotech, trade news of interest this week (Mar 28)
Note - news items of interest added on Apr 1 are in GREEN.
The Missing Monument on the National Mall - A Tribute to Norman Borlaug on His 102nd Birth...
Mandatory GM Labels Do Not Help Consumers
Nobody in the Evergreen State wants to refight an old battle over labeling food that may contain genetically modified ingredients. For us, it’s a settled questi...
Bees are an Essential Resource
More research needed not more restrictions
The most precious acres on my farm don’t produce a single crop. Instead, they raise bees. That’s because I’m an a...
Best Crop Ever is a Modern Technology Success Story
After 40 years of farming, I think I’ve finally gotten it right: I’m about to produce my best crop ever. I won’t have the numbers to prove it until we harves...
A Farm Mom Looks Forward to Innovative Potatoes That Will Cut Waste!
Every mother knows the feeling. You go to the grocery store, buy a sack of potatoes, and come home to get that meal on the table fast – only to discover afte...
No Herbicides & Pesticides – No problem: 70 Million “New” Jobs Created to Grow Our Food
I’ve heard so many misguided, crazy comments about farming over the years that I’ve almost become immune to them. Does it make sense to try to correct every opi...
Litigation is the Root of the Problem
There has been some serious misinformation about the Farmers Assurance Provision running through the anti-biotech community that I would like to address persona...