Technology Is Africa’s Food-Secure Future
The average African farmer is a 60-year-old man who took up agriculture because that’s what his parents did. I’m a woman who, in her mid-20s, chose to become...
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GM Crops Have Transformed My Life for the Better
The world’s farmers have passed a remarkable milestone: We’ve just planted the world’s 5-billionth acre of genetically modified crops. We don’t know exactly ...
Tractor-Chasing Lawyers Stuff Their Own Pockets at the Expense of Ag Innovation
You’ve heard of ambulance-chasing lawyers who seem to turn up at accident scenes whenever they think they can convert a fender-bender into a contingency fee. ...
Can GMO’s Save Oranges? Use it or Lose it!
Flu season is upon us—and countless Americans are reaching for orange juice. They’re hoping its abundance of vitamin C will help them stay healthy, or at least ...
Colorado Proposition 105 is a Bad Labeling Idea That Won’t Work
At a recent livestock show here in Colorado, a teenage girl showed her pig and gave a short talk on biotechnology in agriculture. She criticized genetically mod...
Growing Optimism
Once, my farm was part of a war zone, just south of Johannesburg, South Africa. I had to be optimistic to drive a tractor through a minefield, as I did in the a...
India’s PM Modi Can Help Farmers By Putting Science And Technology To Use
The largest voter-turnout election in the history of the world offers the farmers of my country a remarkable opportunity to move into the 21st century. More ...
The Truth About Technology & Trade With China
Tensions around the Pacific Rim have taken a sharp turn for the worse, ever since China declared a new air-defense zone and projected its power over a small set...
Stewards of the Soil
I was taught as a young man that we don’t inherit the land from our ancestors—we borrow it from our children. On my family farm in North Dakota, this could s...
The Ill-Regulatory USDA
Shortly before last week’s long U.S. Independence Day weekend, the Obama administration announced that it would delay the employer-mandate portion of the new he...