It’s inevitable when traveling. You find yourself drawing comparisons to home. We heard a lot about agriculture, and saw a lot of Europe's history....More
Honey, due to foreign imports, is one of the most tainted foods in America, and China has a sticky finger in almost every pot. The fix is in and....More
You have to give the Prop 37 protestors credit, they’re creative and opportunistic when it comes to getting their message out. But 99 percent of them....More
Before you become depressed at Vilsack’s dismal December message, consider a starkly different one from Christopher Dutton, a professor at Vermont....More
The first time I heard what sounded like scurrying feet on the roof above our bedroom I thought: “Those pesky squirrels are scarfing up acorns off my....More
The future will be more about bushels than acres. If your goal is to increase production, consider that the cost of improving an acre to increase....More
Here are three stories about agriculture you’ll not likely see in local newspapers, which seem to be more inclined to bash big agriculture than glean....More
The circumstance and manner of death are numbing: farmers hacked and mutilated by machetes, dragged to death behind vehicles, stabbed with farm tools....More
In 2006, USDA's Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture forecast that over the next decade China and India would be key....More
The idea of buying farm produce locally has spawned a number of far out ideas over the years. But one I read recently – moving agriculture into....More
The people at PETA must sleep at night while dreaming up scamming visions designed to finagle you – the John Q. Public – to hand over your hard-....More
Welcome to the golden age of copper theft. For thieves, copper is the trump card, and its value has steadily risen since 2002, when the value dipped....More
