Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, and its brethren of global biotech crop developers are spreading the word that as far as the safety of their genetically modified grain goes, the science is solidly on their side. The message of “settled” science has become the rallying cry for defenders of the crops and […] Read more
GMO battles over ‘settled’ science spur new study of crops
All in a day’s work
The Van Kessel family redefines what it means to ‘stay busy’
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the old days, farmers were kept busy finding enough hours in a day to get the planting and harvesting done, as well as all the other chores that went with running a farm and keeping up with the demands of day-to-day living. It was simply a fact of life in agriculture. If you don’t […] Read more
Farmers are from Mars…
… consumers are from Venus. There’s a disconnect between what consumers want to know about food and what farmers think they need to tell them
Reading Time: 5 minutes As I drove past a local equipment dealership recently, my eye wandered over to a long row of shiny new four-wheel drive tractors sitting on the lot. As I admired them, I wondered how many of the people travelling past on the nearby highway who have never set foot on a farm really understand what […] Read more
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