Here in Europe, we hear a lot of negative claims about GMOs. People dont trust them, say the activist groups. Or they arent natural. Or they just enrich big c...
The worst thing about Californias drought is the suffering it has put on ordinary people. In many places, drinking wells have dried up. The crisis is so severe...
The world of your grandparents may seem utterly different from your own. Where I live, however, it looks like nothing has changed.
I raise sorghum and maize ...
Rajesh Kumar, India - recipient of the 2012 Kleckner Trade and Technology Advancement Award.
Farmers in the developing world must be allowed to embrace biot...
I’ve just read your recent interview with the Daily Telegraph--the one from earlier this month, in which you condemn agricultural biotechnology as an &ldq...
Does working the land wreck the land? "Some people think that it does, and believe that agriculture and environmentalism must forever battle each other. Theyve ...
I was a teenage organic farmer."In the 1940s, when my father taught me how to work the land near Rudd, Iowa, we didnt use commercial fertilizers (it wasnt avail...
The Economic Research Service (ERS) of USDA provides estimates of U.S. agricultural exports by state. They do not track actual shipments from the state of produ...
As an Iowa farmer who grows corn for the Mexican market, Im disappointed that the press and some academics are unfairly suggesting that the growing demand for ...
