Tag: agriculture crisis
Why it’s important kids learn about modern agriculture – Ag in the Forefront
Why it’s important kids learn about modern agriculture KP_Farmland.jpg As a kid who grew up on our family’s ranch, it was easy to take things for granted. I knew where the beef in our freezer came... Read More
Rep. Cramer: How Critics of U.S. Farm Policy Have It Wrong – Farm Policy Facts
Source: https://www.farmpolicyfacts.org/2016/11/rep-cramer-critics-u-s-farm-policy-wrong/ Editor’s Note: Farm Policy Facts is pleased to publish a guest editorial from Congressman Kevin Cramer of No... Read More
Would Removing Beef from the Diet Actually Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Ashley Broocks, Emily Andreini, Megan Rolf, Ph.D., and Sara Place, Ph.D., Oklahoma State University This is a topic of discussion within the beef industry. The following article does not necessarily r... Read More
EWG Stoops to New Low, Resorts to Pure Fiction in Latest Attack – Farm Policy Facts
With crop insurance’s popularity rising in rural America and on Capitol Hill, and with the policy’s budget outlays falling, we’re guessing one of its harshest critics, the Environmental Working ... Read More
Farmer’s Daughter: Nostalgia is no reason to put legal limits on farms – AGDAILY.COM
By Amanda Zaluckyj, The Farmer’s Daughter USA Once I started law school, there were a few changes I urged my parents to make to our farming operation. They needed to have written lease agreements, w... Read More
Farm Babe: From tires to toilets, today’s world runs on GMOs – AGDAILY.COM
By Michelle Miller, Farm Babe http://www.farmbabe.org/ Published: November 01, 2016 Around 90 percent of certain crop farmers have been growing GMOs for a couple of decades now, but what are they and ... Read More
The tiresome discussion of initial GMO expectations
By Andrew Kniss (Independent Expert) on Monday, October 31, 2016 – 09:53 Category: Impact on Environment, Impact on Farms, Science and GMO Basics The following is reposted from weed scientist An... Read More
The Humane Society’s Descent Into Abolitionist Veganism – Weekly Standard
Photo credit: Pacific Press/Sipa USA/Newscom http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-humane-societys-descent-into-abolitionist-veganism/article/2005167 This isn’t what well-meaning farmers were signin... Read More