Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup made headlines last week when the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, departed from the scientific consensus to declare glyphosate to be a class 2A "probable human carcinogen."
Avowed liberal Democrat is a defender of free trade policies
Here’s what everybody knows about Paul Krugman: The openly partisan, twice-weekly columnist for the New York Times won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Plenty of food produced, but it doesn’t always reach hungry
Once social scientists and others worried that the world’s population would outstrip the ability to produce food, which would have meant there would be a natural cap on the number of people the planet could support.
National bank group: Farm lenders in good health for 2015
Lower land values and declining farm incomes may stir memories of past farm crises. But farm banks across the Midwest report good financial health and available credit for farms in the coming year.
USDA releases $97M in grants to support local food systems
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the availability of $96.8 million in grants to fund innovative projects to support specialty crop producers, local food entrepreneurs and farm to school efforts.
The drones some farmers use to take better care of their fields and crops will one day be almost as easy to operate as a child’s store-bought remote-control airplane.
