As a farmer, it’s important you take care of your body as you do your machines. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but do something, even if just for 10 minutes.
Facing food waste: Americans place less value on food since they have an abundance of choices and the product they just threw out will be available again.
Activists love to use misconceptions about two artificial sweeteners, saccharin and aspartame, to beat Monsanto over the head, unfairly in my opinion. They love to disparage these sweeteners and declare that “Monsanto is the company that gave us saccharin, aspartame, and PCBs.” That’s only partly correct. Saccharin (Sweet & Low, Necta Sweet) is the oldest […]
The Facebook page for Only Organic is doing a big fearmongering campaign against conventional agriculture called “Skip the Chemicals.”
Hopefully the wheat myths that spread on social media will subside and unnecessarily restricting gluten will become a thing of the past.
As an agriculture community, we tend to do a lot of rubbernecking at days gone by. Not having quite as many decades under my belt as many of my peers, I never really understood that. That is until I started really paying some more mind to agricultural history, especially by those who lived it. It […]
The Peterson Farm Brothers might be best known for their funny farm parody songs, but we also appreciate that, as real farmers, they take a moment to get serious and talk about important issues affecting this industry and the people in it. For harvest season, they’ve invited a state trooper to their inner circle to […]
In a college campus speech, Dr. Vandana Shiva directed efforts to social causes and away from baseless criticism of agriculture and associated technologies.
Volvo hopes that removing leather from some vehicles will make it more sustainable, but it doesn’t seem to know much about how agriculture works.
Farming is at its best when it values both affection and production and balances the need for profits with the richness of relationships.
