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The Global Farmer Network are farmers committed to inserting their voice and perspective in the global dialogue regarding food and nutritional security.

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Cattle Cycle
Opinion
Turning the Challenge of a Cattle Cycle Into an Opportunity
We’re in a predictable period of a well-established supply and demand cycle. Yet there is a different potential crisis looming for the beef cattle industry.
March 04, 2024 10:37 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
A Brazilian Farm Success Story Protecting the Forest
Brazil is home to about one-eighth of the world’s forests. I’m one of many farmers who would like to keep it this way—and we will if the government and the media treat us as partners rather than as enemies.
February 26, 2024 09:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
The Time of His Life
Bill Northey was an amazing leader in agriculture who had the people skills of a retail politician and the vision of a statesman.
February 18, 2024 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
A Global Farmer Perspective on the Opportunity Offered With New Plant Breeding Technology
NGTs give us a chance to hit the reset button—and embrace a technology that can make agriculture more climate conscious, more sustainable, and more fruitful.
February 04, 2024 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
German Farmers Protest Suffocating Policies
Protests have an impact, but they also show that a understanding of ag problems has not yet reached politics. Our goal is to make sure that the voice of farmers is heard in the corridors of power and among the public.
January 28, 2024 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
A Farmer’s View From COP28
COP28 is a big deal. Some 85,000 people attended, including 150 heads of state. In the past, farmers were rarely part of the program. In our absence, we could not defend ourselves, let alone explain what we do.
January 21, 2024 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Rwanda Supports Technology as a Tool for Food Security
We suffer from food insecurity. It shouldn’t be this way. We should be a global breadbasket, not a hopeless continent now known for losing its youthful population dying in the Mediterranean trying to migrate to Europe.
January 07, 2024 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Our Wish: To Witness a Prosperous Africa Catalyzed by Agriculture Advancement
Our wish is for an African agriculture that is resilient, food secure. To witness a prosperous Africa catalyzed by ag advancement. For more people to know the truth about faith and science—and have faith in science.
December 24, 2023 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Keeping the Politics Out of Labels
Labels have become political. Many of them are no longer about what people need to know, but rather what special-interest groups seek to impose.
December 17, 2023 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Recognizing the Importance of Glyphosate as a Tool Supporting Soil Health in the EU
The absence of glyphosate would have made a bad year even worse. We would have grown fewer crops, spent more time and money on controlling weeds, and harmed our soil with plowing.
December 10, 2023 07:00 AM
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