Opinion
Analysis and insights from experts across the agriculture industry.
Put it all together—the ceaseless test of leadership, the total lack of family ties, and the fact that I’m a woman—and farming can feel like a lonely line of work.
Millions of Americans eat in Congregate Facilities
As we traveled and talked, we got to know each other. We were a diverse group, but we discovered common interests and struggles involving everything from weather and pests to technology access and the frustration of regulations that make more sense beneath the fluorescent lights of air-conditioned offices in capital cities than they do to the men and women who work outside and grow food.
Conditions this summer were hot and dry. We gathered our wheat earlier, in the middle of July. Yet we did better than our fathers and grandfathers did in 1976. The difference is technology. Farmers have new tools. We’re much more resilient than our forebears were.
The public officials and regulators who want to impose stricter rules on farmers like me are suggesting, without evidence, that safe methods of crop protection are hazardous to human health. They’re also playing on the fears of ordinary consumers.
The first step in addressing this problem is to raise awareness across the whole value chain that counterfeit products are a problem and how to recognize them.
Jana Gaebert is a good farmer. What really sets her apart, however, is her leadership. She is a powerful advocate for farmers.
As we honor the man behind the Green Revolution with a new coin, we should welcome the fact that we stand on the cusp of a Gene Revolution. It promises to help us to grow even more food on less land and in sustainable ways.
This is an attack on more than Ukraine and its people. It’s also an attack on everyone who lives outside Ukraine’s borders.
We must continue to hear and amplify the voice of farmers as they make unique contributions to discussions and debates surrounding food and its production.
When we build a culture that immediately offers care and comfort, more people will step forward, speak up, ask for help, and help others.
Could be strongest El Nino on record
The new board members join a distinguished group of 11 other agricultural leaders committed to empowering farmers through collaboration, education, and advocacy.
AI holds tremendous potential to improve agriculture everywhere.
The world needs more good food. But perhaps even more, it needs people who know how to care—for land, for animals, and for one another. That is what so many women farmers grow.
Emotion-based rather than science-based restrictions on glyphosate would force many farmers to turn to herbicides that perform similar jobs with harsher, more toxic chemistry.
The 56 signers of the Declaration came from many backgrounds and labored in many professions. The primary author of the document, Thomas Jefferson, was a farmer in Virginia. About 15 of the signers were at least part-time farmers.
As poultry farmers, we’re part of a long chain of production whose goal is to put delicious and healthy food on the tables of people around the world. It all starts here, on our farm, where we’re devoted to fast and efficient production, and where we’re always striving to do better with hard work and new technologies.
We must take a long-term approach and make sure our nation’s agriculture can endure the volatility of geopolitics and economics. A lot of forces are outside of our influence, so we must make the most of what we can control—and that means embracing the tools and technologies that allow us to thrive.
First U.S. outbreak since 1966
As we exchange goods and services, we also exchange knowledge—and I’m hopeful that when farmers and scientists work together across borders, we can overcome diseases and improve agriculture everywhere.
We’re telling a carbon-positive story about agriculture. We’re meeting both the needs and expectations of consumers by supplying companies with raw material for clothes and doing it in a regenerative way that helps the environment.
In this OpEd, Daren Coppock, president and CEO of the Agricultural Retailers Associations says “preserving uniform federal labeling protects everyone who depends on the food system—and that means all of us.”