Chris Bennett

Associate Editor, Western Farm Press

A native of Helena, Ark., Bennett is a graduate of Missouri State University.

He has been an associate editor with Farm Press for five years.

Posts by Chris Bennett

in Farm Press Blog May. 22, 2013

China's food safety a giant scam

China's new era of food safety is taking a severe beating from dead hog flotillas, rat steaks, and toxic chicken feet....More
in Farm Press Blog May. 20, 2013

Cliff Young — the farmer who outran the field

When unknown 61-year-old farmer Cliff Young shuffled off his farmland and destroyed 10 professional runners in a 544-mile race — a legend was born....More
in Farm Press Blog May. 14, 2013

Supreme Court stuffs seed patents back in Pandora’s box

The High Court squeezed seed patents back into Pandora’s box, but more cases will come....More
in Farm Press Blog May. 14, 2013

Wine skeptic takes on climate change report

Welcome to the great wine scare of 2013. It's adios to California's premium wines and adieu to Bordeaux....More
in Farm Press Blog May. 8, 2013

One bite or bullet from death for Hitler's food taster

For two and a half years, Margot Wolk was Adolf Hitler’s food taster — forced daily to play roulette and risk her life to protect his....More
in Farm Press Blog May. 7, 2013

New GM crop wave may ease Frankenfood fright

A new wave of grocery aisle GM crops with clear-cut benefits to consumers may succeed in diminishing the volume of rhetoric from the Frankenfood cult....More
in Farm Press Blog May. 1, 2013

Farmland — gold you can eat

Talk of bubbles or crashes hasn’t put a dent in the farmland market, and if the end is nigh — nobody is blinking....More
in Farm Press Blog Apr. 29, 2013

Killing cattle softly: slaughterhouse or gun?

The stress-free, gunshot method approach to livestock slaughter is not viable. In the real world cattle industry where production and efficiency are....More
in Farm Press Blog Apr. 24, 2013

Farmer feeds hogs from finest Vegas buffets

Bob Combs feeds his 2,500 hogs with leftovers from Las Vegas casinos, while other farmers pay increasingly high costs for grain....More
in Farm Press Blog Apr. 22, 2013

Dairy farmer blends vodka from cow’s milk

It’s not a pail-and-stool extraction, but Jason Barber is producing Black Cow vodka made entirely from the milk of his 250-head dairy herd....More