Europe Needs an Open Dialogue About GMOs that Includes Farmers
Here in Europe, we hear a lot of negative claims about GMOs. People don’t trust them, say the activist groups. Or they aren’t natural. Or they just enrich big c...
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California farmers invest water to feed people
The worst thing about California’s drought is the suffering it has put on ordinary people. In many places, drinking wells have dried up. The crisis is so severe...
With the Right Tools, Zimbabwe Can be an Agricultural Breadbasket
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 ...
2012 – Rajesh Kumar, India
Rajesh Kumar, India - recipient of the 2012 Kleckner Trade and Technology Advancement Award. Farmers in the developing world must be allowed to embrace biot...
2011 – Gilbert arap Bor, Kenya
Farmers in the developing world must participate in the global economy by embracing and using new technologies Des Moines, Iowa – Gilbert arap Bor ...
Open Invitation to a Prince
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...
Coexisting Abundance
Does working the land wreck the land? "Some people think that it does, and believe that agriculture and environmentalism must forever battle each other. TheyÕve...
Organic Original
I was a teenage organic farmer."In the 1940s, when my father taught me how to work the land near Rudd, Iowa, we didnÕt use commercial fertilizers (it wasnÕt ava...
U.S. Agricultural Exports by State
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...
Mexican Tortilla Crisis
As an Iowa farmer who grows corn for the Mexican market, I’m disappointed that the press and some academics are unfairly suggesting that the growing demand for ...