View from a Canadian Farmer: Does Glyphosate Cause Cancer?
Glyphosate and cancer. This is something we are hearing so much about, seemingly all of the sudden, with major stories breaking in the last week. Just last Frid...
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The Consequences When Ag Technology is Withheld: A Farmer’s Perspective
How much would your life change if suddenly the government were to ban mobile phones? It would alter everything, from how you work to how you communicate with ...
US, China tit for tat on tariffs, trade probes – news for week of Feb 5
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IARC Alarmism Puts Rats Before Farmers
Some things are said to be “too big to fail.” Now it seems that some truths are “too big to publish.” That’s one of the jaw-dropping explanations behind t...
China GM import approvals, IARC shenanigans, and what comes from brown cows? – news for week of June 19
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Brazil approves GM sugarcane, flying cows, and more… – news for week of June 12
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Ag, biotech and trade news of interest this week (Apr 18)
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Well-Intentioned CA Prop 65 is Getting Out of Hand
Farmers in California have it tough these days. Despite recent rainfall from El Nino, we continue to suffer through one of the worst droughts in history. We sti...
Carcinogenic Headlines Lack Meat
It’s déjà vu all over again, as the late Yogi Berra supposedly once said. That was my response to the new headline-grabbing claims that everybody should quit...
In the Battle to Feed the World, Farmers Need Science to Fight Weeds
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. A generation or two ago, people spoke this line with a smile. It appears as though some...